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IS  DOM  OF 


UC-NRLF 


WISDOM  OF  THE  WISE 


PITHY  AND  POINTED  SA  YINGS 
OF  THE  BEST  AUTHORS 


SELECTED   BY 

CAROLINE  L.    HUNT 

OF  THE  SAN  FRANCISCO  GIRLS'  HIGH  SCHOOL 


"  Words  without  thoughts  are  dead  sounds ;  thoughts 
without  words  are  nothing."  —  MAX  MULLER. 


BOSTON 

D    LOTHROP    COMPANY 

WASHINGTON     STREET  OPPOSITE  BROMFIELD 


COPYRIGHT,  1891, 

BY 
-       D.  LOTHROP  COMPANY. 


INTRODUCTION. 


SOLOMON  THE  WISE  said,  centuries  ago,  "  Of 
making  many  books  there  is  no  end  ;  "  and  a  wise 
man  of  later  times  says  that  no  author  should 
add  another  to  the  number  of  books  already 
in  the  world,  unless  he  can  give  a  good  reason 
for  its  being.  In  extenuation  of  my  offense  in 
this  respect,  I  would  plead,  I  did  not  make  the 
book,  it  grew. 

For  many  years  a  teacher  in  the  Girls'  High 
School,  I  have  been  constantly  on  the  alert  to 
find  the  best  way  of  impressing  upon  the  hearts 
and  minds  of  my  pupils  the  great  principles  of 
right  and  truth  and  justice,  that  lie  at  the 
foundation  of  all  good  character. 

Many  plans  have  been  tried,  and  among  them 
that  of  placing  before  the  pupils  each  day  a 
quotation  which  should  contain  some  truth  that 


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INTRODUCTION. 

I  desired  to  impress,  some  hint  in  regard  to  a 
neglected  duty,  some  gentle  reproof  for  faults 
committed,  or  some  word  of  encouragement  to 
new  effort. 

Selecting  for  my  purpose  the  noblest  thoughts, 
clothed  in  the  beautiful  language  of  our  best 
authors,  I  find  that  the  lesson  arouses  none  of 
the  feeling  of  antagonism  that  a  reproof  other- 
wise administered  might  occasion;  and  the 
responsive  glance  from  a  pair  of  bright  eyes  has 
many  a  time  told  me  of  the  success  of  my  effort 
when  no  word  has  been  spoken.  That  the  seed 
thus  sown  bears  fruit,  I  know  from  letters 
received  from  former  pupils,  who  have  taken 
occasion  to  express  their  thanks  for  the  benefit 
they  felt  they  had  received. 

The  plan  having  come  to  the  knowledge  of 
some  of  my  fellow-teachers,  I  have  frequently 
been  asked  to  name  the  book  from  which  I  ob- 
tained my  quotations.  This  I  was  unable  to  do, 
for  the  selections  had  been  made  from  various 
sources  through  years  of  miscellaneous  reading, 
and  without  a  thought  of  their  being  used  by  any 
one  except  myself.  I  was  then  urged  to  prepare 
a  volume  of  the  extracts  for  publication,  as  such 


INTRODUCTION. 

a  work  would  be  of  great  value  to  teachers,  and 
would  also  prove  a  welcome  gift  to  the  many 
who  best  appreciate  the  shortest  sermons. 

Being  anxious  to  do  the  little  good  I  could,  I 
have  complied  with  the  request,  putting  the 
quotations  together  in  the  simplest  form,  and 
giving  credit  to  the  authors  whenever  I  have 
been  able  to  do  so. 

Now,    "Armed     by    faith,    and    winged    by 
prayer,"  I  send  the  little  volume  forth,  trusting 
that  it  may  find  a  place,  and  be  the  means  of 
doing  some  good  in  its  day  and  generation. 
CAROLINE  L.  HUNT. 

GIRLS'  HIGH  SCHOOL, 

San  Francisco,  Cal.,July,  1891. 


WISDOM    OF    THE   WISE. 


BEAUTY. 

JTis  the  stainless  soul  within 
That  outshines  the  fairest  skin. 

SIR  A.  HUNT. 

If  eyes  were  made  for  seeing, 
Then  beauty  is  its  own  excuse  for  being. 

R.  W.  EMERSON. 

BEING   GOOD. 

Nothing  is  to  be  compared  for  value  with 
goodness;  riches,  honor,  power,  pleasure,  learn- 
ing, the  whole  world  and  all  in  it,  are  not  worth 
having  in  comparison  with  being  good. 

CHARLES  KINGSLEY. 

Howe'er  it  be,  it  seems  to  me, 
'Tis  only  noble  to  be  good. 

ALFRED  TENNYSON. 

Be  not  simply  good  ;  but  good  for  something. 

THOREAU. 

Goodness  and  greatness  are  not  means,  but  ends. 
Hath  he  not  always  treasures,  always  friends, 
The  good  great  man  ? 
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EOOKS. 

Libraries  are  the  wardrobes  of  literature 
whence  men,  properly  informed,  might  bring 
forth  something  for  ornament,  much  for  curi- 
osity, and  more  for  use.  j.  DWYER. 

Next  to  acquiring  good  friends,  the  best  ac- 
quisition is  that  of  good  books. 

C.  C.  COLTON. 

A  taste  for  books  is  the  pleasure  and  glory  of 
my  life.  I  would  not  exchange  it  for  the  riches 
of  the  Indies.  GIBBON. 

"  Dreams,  books,  are  each  a  world ;  and  books 

we  know, 

Are  a  substantial  world,  both  pure  and  good ; 
Round  these  with  tendrils  strong  as  flesh  and 

blood, 

Our  pastimes  and  our  happiness  will  grow." 

WORDSWORTH. 

Books  are  the  food  of  youth,  the  delight  of 
old  age ;  the  ornament  of  prosperity,  the  refuge 
and  comfort  of  adversity ;  a  delight  at  home, 
and  no  hinderance  abroad;  a  companion  by 
night,  in  traveling,  in  the  country.  CICERO. 
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BRAVERY. 

Any  coward  can  fight  a  battle  when  he's  sure 
of  winning;  but  give  me  the  man  who  has  pluck 
to  fight  when  he's  sure  of  losing. 

GEORGE  ELIOT. 

Real  glory 

Springs  from  the  silent  conquest  of  ourselves. 

THOMSON. 

Wherever  a  noble  deed  is  done, 

There  are  the  souls  of  our  heroes  stirred ; 
Wherever  a  field  for  truth  is  won, 

There  are  our  heroes'  voices  heard. 

E.  D.  PROCTOR. 

That  courage  which  arises  from  the  sense  of 
our  duty,  and  from  the  fear  of  offending  Him 
that  made  us,  acts  always  in  an  uniform  manner, 
and  according  to  the  dictates  of  right  reason. 

ADDISON. 

The  brave  man  is  not  he  who  feels  no  fear, 
For  that  were  stupid  and  irrational ; 
But  he,  whose  noble  soul  its  fear  subdues, 
And  bravely  dares  the  danger  nature  shrinks 
from.  JOANNA  BAILLIE. 

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CHARACTER. 

If  you  would  not  be  known  to  do  anything, 
never  do  it. 

A  man  passes  for  that  he  is  worth. 

Character  is  nature  in  its  highest  form. 

R.  W.  EMERSON. 

A  man  cannot  speak  but  he  judges  himself. 
With  his  will  or  against  his  will,  he  draws  his 
portrait  to  the  eye  of  his  companions  by  every 
word. 

Love,  hope,  fear,  faith  —  these  make  humanity  ; 
These  are  its  sign,  and  note,  and  character. 

ROBERT  BROWNING. 

Conduct  is  the  great  profession.  Behavior  is 
the  perpetual  revealing  of  us.  What  a  man 
does,  tells  us  what  he  is. 

F.    D.    HUNTINGTON. 

Strong  souls 
Live    like    fire-hearted    suns,   to   spend    their 

strength 
In  furthest  striving  action.  GEORGE  ELIOT. 

Character  is  higher  than  intellect.  A  great 
soul  will  be  strong  to  live  as  well  as  to  think. 

The  American  Scholar. 
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CHARITY  —  CONTENTMENT. 

The  alms  most  precious  man  can  give  to  man 
Are  kind  and  loving  words.     Nor  come  amiss 

Warm  sympathizing  tears  to  eyes  that  scan 
The  world  aright :  the  only  error  is 

Neglect  to  do  the  little  good  we  can. 

Charity,  taken  in  its  largest  extent,  is  nothing 
else  but  the  sincere  love  of  God  and  of  our 
neighbor.  WAKE. 

And  now  abideth  faith,  hope,  charity,  these 
three,  but  the  greatest  of  these  is  charity. 

Bible. 

The  least  flower  with  a  brimming  cup 
May  stand  and  share  its  dewdrop  with  another 
near.  E.  B.  BROWNING. 

CONTENTMENT. 

He  who  wants  little  always  has  enough. 

ZIMMERMAN. 

He  is  richest  who  is  content  with  the  least ; 
for  content  is  the  wealth  of  nature. 

SOCRATES.     . 

When  the  best  things  are  not  possible,  the 
best  may  be  made  of  those  that  are. 

HOOKER. 


CONTENTMENT. 

To  secure  a  contented  spirit,  measure  your 
desires  by  your  fortunes,  and  not  your  fortunes 
by  your  desires.  JEREMY  TAYLOR. 

"  Think  on  your  marcies,  chile,  think  on  your 
marcies." 

He  who  isn't  contented  with  what  he  has 
wouldn't  be  contented  with  what  he  would  like 
to  have.  AUERBACH. 

Enjoy  your  own  life  without  comparing  it  with 
that  of  another.  CONDORCET. 

My  crown  is  in  my  heart,  not  on  my  head ; 
Not  decked  with  diamond  and  Indian  stones, 
Nor  to  be  seen  :  my  crown  is  called  content ; 
A  crown  it  is  that  seldom  kings  enjoy. 

SHAKESPEARE. 

Sweet  are  the  thoughts  that  savor  of  content ; 

The  quiet  mind  is  richer  than  a  crown ; 
Sweet  are  the  nights  in  careless  slumber  spent ; 
The  poor  estate  scorns  fortune's  angry  frown : 
Such  sweet  content,  such  minds,  such  sleep, 

such  bliss, 
Beggars  enjoy,  when  princes  oft  do  miss. 

ROBT.  GREENE. 
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CONCEIT  —  CHRISTIANITY. 

I've  never  any  pity  for  conceited  people,  be- 
cause I  think  they  carry  their  comfort  about 
with  them.  GEORGE  ELIOT. 

Too  great  confidence  in  success  is  the  likeli- 
est to  prevent  it ;  because  it  hinders  us  from 
making  the  best  use  of  the  advantages  which 
we  enjoy.  ATTERBURY. 

Seest  thou  a  man  wise  in  his  own  conceit? 
There  is  more  hope  of  a  fool  than  of  him. 

Be  not  wise  in  your  own  conceits.          Bible. 
Modesty  is  the  politeness  of  conceit. 

CHRISTIANITY. 

"Christianity,  if  it  means  anything,  means 
sixteen  ounces  to  the  pound,  three  feet  to  the 
yard,  a  just  weight  and  just  measure. 

"  It  means  honesty  in  all  dealings,  purity  in 
all  conversation,  a  charity  as  broad  as  the  race, 
unflinching  integrity,  sympathy,  humanity  to 
man,  loyalty  to  God.  With  these  there  can  be 
no  compromise." 

"  Politeness  is  surface  Christianity." 
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CONVERSATION. 

The  first  ingredient  in  conversation  is  truth, 
the  next  good  sense,  the  third,  good  humor,  and 
the  fourth,  wit.  SIR  WM.  TEMPLE. 

There  are  three  things  in  speech  that  ought 
to  be  considered  before  some  things  are  spoken ; 
the  manner,  the  place,  and  the  time. 

SOUTH  EY. 

Words  learn'd  by  rote,  a  parrot  may  rehearse, 
But  talking  is  not  always  to  converse  ; 
Not  more  distinct  from  harmony  divine 
The  constant  creaking  of  a  country  sign. 

COWPER. 

The  advantage  of  conversation  is  such  that, 
for  want  of  company,  a  man  had  better  talk  to 
a  post  than  let  his  thoughts  lie  smoking  and 
smothering.  JEREMY  COLLIER. 

When  you  find  an  antagonist  beginning  to 
grow  warm,  put  an  end  to  the  dispute  by  some 
genteel  badinage.  CHESTERFIELD. 

"If  wisdom's  ways  you  wisely  seek, 
Five  things  observe  with  care ; 

Of  whom  you  speak,  to  whom  you  speak, 
And  how  and  when  and  where." 
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COURTESY. 

"  Politeness  is  to  do  and  say, 

The  kindest  thing  in  the  kindest  way." 

"Politeness    is    real    kindness,    kindly    ex- 
pressed." 

No  amount  of  training  can  make  a  gentle- 
man or  gentlewoman,  unless  the  gentle  spirit 
be  within.  EMERSON. 

In  character,  in  manners,  in  style,  in  all  things 
the  supreme  excellence  is  simplicity. 

LONGFELLOW. 

Grace  is  to  the  body  what  good  sense  is  to 
the  mind.  ROCHEFOUCAULD. 

Love  as  brethren,  be  pitiful,  be  courteous. 

Bible. 

Good  breeding  is  benevolence  in  trifles. 

LORD  CHATHAM. 

The  person  who  screams,  or  uses  the  superla- 
tive degree,  or  converses  with  heat,  puts  whole 
drawing-rooms  to  flight.  R.  w.  EMERSON. 

Good  breeding  is  the  result  of  much  good 
sense,  some  good  nature,  and  a  little  self-denial 
for  the  sake  of  others.  CHESTERFIELD. 

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COURTESY. 

"Manners  are  happy  ways  of  doing  things; 
each  one  a  stroke  of  genius  or  of  love,  now  re- 
peated and  hardened  into  usage." 
How   sweet   and    gracious    even    in    common 

speech, 

Is  that  fine  sense  which  men  call  courtesy! 
Wholesome  as  air  and  genial  as  the  light, 
Welcome  in  every  clime  as  breath  of  flowers,  — 
It  transmutes  aliens  into  trusting  friends, 
And  gives  its  owner  passport  round  the  globe. 

JAMES  T.  FIELDS. 

"  The  secret  of  art  in  manners  may  be  found 
by  acting  on  the  principle  of  making  every  one 
as  happy  as  lies  in  our  power." 

She  doeth  little  kindnesses 

Which  most  leave  undone  or  despise, 

For  naught  that  sets  one's  heart  at  ease 

Or  giveth  happiness  or  peace 

Is  low-esteemed  in  her  eyes. 

J.  R.  LOWELL. 

"  The  true  lady  never  in  any  way  makes  her- 
self conspicuous,  and  never  does  anything  un- 
necessarily to  make  other  people  uncomfortable 
or  unhappy." 

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DAUGHTERS. 

That  our  daughters  may  be  as  corner-stones 
polished  after  the  similitude  of  a  palace. 

Bible. 

Light-hearted  maiden,  oh  heed  thy  feet ! 

Oh  keep  where  that  beam  of  Paradise  falls  ; 
And  only  wonder  where  thou  mayst  meet 

The  blessed  ones  from  its  shining  walls, 
So  shalt  thou  come  from  the  land  of  dreams 

With  love  and  peace  to  this  world  of  strife  ; 
And  the  life  that  over  that  border  streams 

Shall  be  on  the  path  of  thy  daily  life. 

W.  C.  BRYANT. 

My  daughter,  every  bond  of  your  life  is  a 
debt ;  the  right  lies  in  the  payment  of  that 
debt ;  it  can  lie  nowhere  else. 

GEORGE  ELIOT. 

O  thou  child  of  many  prayers ! 

Life  hath  quicksands,  Life  hath  snares  ! 

Care  and  age  come  unawares ! 

Bear  through  sorrow,  wrong,  and  ruth, 
In  thy  heart  the  dew  of  youth ; 
On  thy  lips  the  smile  of  truth. 

H.  W.  LONGFELLOW. 
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DEATH. 

Death  loves  a  shining  mark,  a  signal  blow. 

SHAKESPEARE. 

Green  be  the  turf  above  thee, 

Friend  of  my  better  days  ; 
None  knew  thee  but  to  love  thee, 

Nor  named  thee  but  to  praise. 

FITZ- GREENE  HALLECK. 

He  was  a  man  take  him  for  all  in  all ; 
We  shall  not  look  upon  his  like  again. 

SHAKESPEARE. 

Death  is  the  dropping  of  the  flower  that  the 
fruit  may  swell. 

H.  W.  BEECHER. 

"  Tis  the  cessation  of  our  breath. 
Silent  and  motionless  we  lie  ; 
And  no  one  knoweth  more  than  this." 
Leaves  have  their  time  to  fall ; 
And  flowers  to  wither  at  the   north  wind's 

breath; 
And  stars  to  set,  — but  all  — 

Thou  hast  all  seasons  for  thine  own,  O  Death! 

MRS.  HEMANS. 

"  E'en  such  is  man ;  who  lives  by  breath, 
Is  here,  now  there,  in  life  and  death." 
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DEATH  —  DILIGENCE. 

There  is  no  Death !  what  seems  so  is  transition ; 

This  life  of  mortal  breath 
Is  but  a  suburb  of  the  life  elysian, 

Whose  portal  we  call  Death. 

H.  W.  LONGFELLOW. 

"  The  living  are  the  only  dead ; 

The  dead  live  —  nevermore  to  die  ; 
And  often,  when  we  mourn  them  fled ; 

They  never  were  so  nigh  ! " 

Death  is  delightful.     Death  is  dawn, 
The  waking  from  a  weary  night 
Of  fevers  unto  truth  and  light. 

JOAQUIN  MILLER. 

DILIGENCE. 

"  Diligence  is  the  philosopher's  stone  that 
turns  everything  into  gold." 

"  All  good  of  earth,  e'en  Heaven  itself 
By  diligence  is  won." 

See'st  thou  a  man  diligent  in  his  business? 
he  shall  stand  before  kings. 

Diligent  in  business,  fervent  in  spirit,  serving 
the  Lord.  Bible. 

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DOING   GOOD. 

Neglect  no  opportunity  of  doing  good,  nor 
check  thy  desire  of  doing  it,  by  a  vain  fear  of 
what  may  happen.  ATTERBURY. 

Count  that  day  lost  whose  low-descending  sun, 
Views  from  thy  hand,  no  worthy  action  done. 

ADRIAN. 

Doing  good  is  the  only  certainly  happy  action 
of  a  man's  life.  SIR  PHILIP  SIDNEY. 

What  do  we  live  for  if  not  to  make  life  less 
difficult  to  each  other.  GEORGE  ELIOT. 

We  can  do  more  good  by  being  good  than  in 
any  other  way.  ROWLAND  HILL. 

Learn  the  luxury  of  doing  good. 

GOLDSMITH. 

He  who  receives  a  good  turn  should  never 
forget  it ;  he  who  does  one  should  never  re- 
member it.  CHARSON. 

Oh  !  whatever  the  fortune  a  man  may  have  won, 
A  kindness  depends  on  the  way  it  is  done  ; 
And  though  poor  be  our  purse,  and  though  nar- 
row our  span, 

Let  us  all  try  to  do  a  good  turn  when  we  can. 

CHARLES  SWAIN. 
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DOING  GOOD. 

Do  all  the  good  you  can  and  don't  make  a 
fuss  about  it.  CHARLES  DICKENS. 

"  Do  good,  shun  evil,  live  not  thou 
As  if  at  death  thy  being  died  ; 

Nor  error's  siren  voice  allow 

To  draw  thy  steps  from  truth  aside." 

You  will  do  good,  less  by  what  you  say  or  do 
or  even  give,  than  by  what  you  are. 

DR.  PEABODY. 

No  opportunities  for  gaining  or  doing  good 
ever  fall  in  our  way,  that  will  not  if  improved, 
make  our  lives  richer  and  happier. 

No  opportunities  of  good  are  ever  lost,  through 
our  neglect,  without  being,  some  day,  missed 
and  regretted.  M.  H.  HOWELL. 

Be  good,  sweet  maid,  and  let  who  will  be  clever, 
Do  noble  things,  not  dream  them  all  day  long  : 
And  so  make  life,  death,  and  that  vast  forever 
One  grand  sweet  song. 

CHARLES  KINGSLEY. 


DUTY. 

Great  powers  and  natural  gifts  do  not  bring 
privileges  to  their  possessor  so  much  as  they 
bring  duties.  H.  w.  BEECHER. 

There  is  not  a  moment  without  some  duty. 

CICERO. 

What  it  is  our  duty  to  do  we  must  do  because 
it  is  right,  not  because  any  one  can  demand  it 
of  us.  WHEWELL. 

"  With  all  thy  heart  love  God  above, 
And,  as  thyself,  thy  neighbor  love." 
"  Every  noble  life  is  a  life  of  duty,  and  that 
duty  is  synonymous  with  labor." 

Be  sure  that  God 

Ne'er  dooms  to  waste  the  strength   he  deigns 
impart.  ROBERT  BROWNING. 

He  who  is  false  to  present  duty  breaks  a 
thread  in  the  loom,  and  will  find  a  flaw,  when 
he  may  have  forgotten  its  cause. 

H.  W.  BEECHER. 

"  Every  hour  that  fleets  so  slowly, 
Has  its  task  to  do  or  bear ; 

Luminous  the  crown  and  holy, 
If  thou  set  each  gem  with  care." 


DUTY. 

Resolved,  never  to  do  anything,  which,  if  I 
should  see  in  another,  I  should  count  a  just  oc- 
casion to  despise  him  for,  or  to  think  any  way 
more  meanly  of  him.  JONATHAN  EDWARDS. 

God  gives  all  his  creatures  some  duty  each  day, 
And  mine  is,  perhaps,  just  to  trust  and  obey. 
MARGARET  E.  SANGSTER. 

God  never  imposes  a  duty  without  giving  the 
time  to  do  it.  RUSKIN. 

"  Little  duties  are  golden  pins  to  fasten  the 
mantle  of  God's  love  securely  about  us." 

Build  to-day,  then,  strong  and  sure, 
With  a  firm  and  ample  base, 

And  ascending  and  secure 
Shall  to-morrow  find  its  place. 

H.  W.  LONGFELLOW. 

There  is  nothing  in  the  universe  that  I  fear 
but  that  I  shall  not  know  all  my  duty  or  shall 
fail  to  do  it.  MARY  LYON. 

"  Your  duty  for  to-day  does  not  lie  in  a  foreign 
land." 

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ECONOMY  —  EDUCATION. 

"  He  who  buys  what  he  does  not  need  will 
often  need  what  he  cannot  buy." 

Never  buy  what  you  do  not  want  because  it 
is  cheap.  FRANKLIN. 

Run  never  in  debt,  but  pay  as  you  go  ; 
A  man  free  from  debt  feels  a  heaven  below ; 
It  needs  a  great  effort  the  spirit  to  brace 
'Gainst  the  terror  that  dwells   in   a  creditor's 
face.  B.  P.  SHILLABER. 

Beware  of  little  expenses;  a  small  leak  will 
sink  a  great  ship.  B.  FRANKLIN. 

Economy  is  the  parent  of  integrity,  of  liberty, 
and  of  ease.  DR.  JOHNSON. 

EDUCATION. 

Learning  by  study  must  be  won ; 
'Twas  ne'er  entailed  from  son  to  son. 

GAY. 

Those  who  trust  us  educate  us. 

GEORGE  ELIOT. 

Without  education   men  are  like  bears  and 
wolves.  LUTHER. 

Education  begins  the  gentleman;  but  reading, 
good  company,  and  reflection  must  finish  him. 

LOCKE. 
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EDUCATION. 

Every  man  who  rises  above  the  common  level 
receives  two  educations :  the  first  from  his  in- 
structors ;  the  second,  the  most  personal  and 
important,  from  himself.  GIBBON. 

"  A  good  education  consists  in  a  combination 
of  good  habits." 

Perhaps  the  most  valuable  result  of  all  educa- 
tion is  the  ability  to  make  yourself  do  the  thing 
you  have  to  do,  when  it  ought  to  be  done, 
whether  you  like  it  or  not ;  it  is  the  first  lesson 
that  ought  to  be  learned,  and  however  early  a 
man's  training  begins,  it  is  probably  the  last 
lesson  that  he  learns  thoroughly. 

T.  H.  HUXLEY. 

The  true  aim  of  the  highest  education  is  to 
give  character,  rather  than  knowledge,  to  train 
men  to  be,  rather  than  to  know. 

MARK  HOPKINS. 

The  first  thing  in  education  is  to  encourage  a 
habit  of  observation  and  inquiry.  When  your 
child  asks,  "  What  is  the  use  of  this  ? "  "  Why 
is  that  ? "  don't  call  it  troublesome.  The  best 
education  is  that  which  is  the  answer  to  our 
own  inquiries.  ROBERTSON. 

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ENEMIES —  FAITH. 

It's    poor    foolishness    to    run    down    your 
enemies.  GEORGE  ELIOT. 

Tis  death  to  me  to  be  at  enmity ;  I  hate  it, 
and  desire  all  good  men's  love.     SHAKESPEARE. 

FAITH. 
I  know  not  where  those  islands  lift 

Their  fronded  palms  in  air, 
I  only  know  they  cannot  drift 
Beyond  God's  love  and  care. 

J.  G.  WHITTIER. 

Faith  is  the  subtle  chain 
That  binds  us  to  the  Infinite  :  the  voice 
Of  a  deep  life  within. 

ELIZABETH  OAKES  SMITH. 

There  is  a  day  of  sunny  rest 

For  every  dark  and  troubled  night, 

And  grief  may  bide  an  evening  guest, 
But  joy  shall  come  with  early  light. 

The  light  of  smiles  shall  fill  again 

The  lids  that  overflow  with  tears, 
And  weary  hours  of  woe  and  pain 
Are  promises  of  happier  years. 

W.  C.  BRYANT, 
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FALSEHOOD. 

Sin  has  many  tools,  but  a  lie  is  the  handle 
that  fits  them  all.  O.  W.  HOLMES. 

A  lie  has  no  legs,  and  cannot  stand ;  but  it 
has  wings  and  can  fly  far  and  wide. 

BISHOP  WARBURTON. 

Liars  are  the  cause  of  all  the  sins  and  crimes 
in  the  world.  EPICTETUS. 

Dare  to  be  true.     Nothing  can  need  a  lie ; 
A  fault  which  needs  it  most,  grows  two  thereby. 

HERBERT. 

Lying  lips  are  abomination  to  the  Lord ;  but 
they  that  deal  truly  are  his  delight.  Bible. 

Oh  !  what  a  tangled  web  we  weave 
When  first  we  practice  to  deceive. 

SCOTT. 

He  who  tells  a  lie  is  not  sensible  how  great  a 
task  he  undertakes,  for  he  must  be  forced  to 
invent  twenty  more  to  maintain  one.  POPE. 

And  he  that  does  one  fault  at  first, 
And  lies  to  hide  it,  makes  it  two. 

WATTS. 

A  lie  is  like  a  vizard,  that  may  cover  the  face 
indeed  but  can  never  become  it.  SOUTH. 

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FIRMNESS FORGIVENESS. 

Be  firm  ;  one  constant  element  in  luck 
Is  genuine  solid  old  Teutonic  pluck ; 
See  yon  tall  shaft ;  it  felt  the  earthquake's  thrill, 
Clung  to  its  base,  and  greets  the  sunrise  still. 

O.  W.  HOLMES. 

Be  firm  of  heart ; 

"  By  fusion  of  unnumbered  years 

A  continent  its  vastness  rears ! 

A  drop,  'tis  said,  through  flint  will  wear ; 

Toil  on,  and  nature's  conquest  share  ! 
Toil  on  ! " 

FORGIVENESS. 

"  I  can  forgive,  but  I  cannot  forget,"  is  only 
another  way  of  saying,  I  will  not  forgive.  A 
forgiveness  ought  to  be  like  a  cancelled  note, 
torn  in  two  and  burned  up,  so  that  it  never  can 
be  shown  against  the  man. 

H.  W.  BEECHER. 

He  that  cannot  forgive  others  breaks  the 
bridge  over  which  he  must  pass  himself ;  for 
every  man  has  need  to  be  forgiven. 

LORD  HERBERT  OF  CHERBURY. 

Humanity  is  never  so  beautiful  as  when  pray- 
ing for  forgiveness,  or  else  forgiving  another. 

RICHTER. 

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FREEDOM  —  FRIENDSHIP. 

No  man  is  free  who  cannot  command  himself. 

EPICTETUS. 

True  liberty  can  exist  only  when  justice  is 
equally  administered.  LORD  MANSFIELD. 

Liberty  and  Union,  now  and  forever,  one  and 
inseparable.  DANIEL  WEBSTER. 

Lord  of  the  Universe !   shield  us  and  guide  us, 
Trusting  Thee  always,  through  shadow  and 

sun! 

Thou  hast  united  us,  who  shall  divide  us  ? 
Keep  us,  O  keep  us  —  the  Many  in  one. 

O.  W.  HOLMES. 
FRIENDSHIP. 

"  A  false  friend,  like  a  shadow,  attends  only 
while  the  sun  shines." 

"The  noblest  part  of  a  friend  is  an  honest 
boldness  in  the  notifying  of  errors.  He  that 
tells  me  of  a  fault  aiming  at  my  good,  I  must 
think  him  wise  and  faithful;  wise  in  spying  that 
which  I  see  not ;  faithful  in  a  plain  admonition, 
not  tainted  with  flattery."  FELTHAM. 

"  Be  true  to  your  word,  your  work  and  your 
friepd." 

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FRIENDSHIP. 

"  Prevent  a  friend  from  doing  you  good,  im- 
press him  with  the  idea  that  he  is  of  no  use  to 
you,  and  his  affection  will  cool.  But  ask  a  man 
for  little  services  he  is  ready  to  render,  let  him 
know  and  keep  in  his  mind  that  he  has  conferred 
a  benefit  upon  you,  and  he  will  like  you  all  the 
more  for  it,  become  interested  in  your  welfare, 
and  feel  real  devotion  for  you.  I  have  never 
known  this  experiment  to  fail." 

We  should  praise  our  friends  —  our  near  and 
dear  ones  —  we  should  look  on  and  think  of 
their  virtues  till  their  faults  fade  away. 

H.  B.  STOWE. 

Friendship  is  a  strong  and  habitual  inclina- 
tion in  two  persons  to  promote  the  good  and 
happiness  of  each  other.  ADDISON. 

Tis  thus  that  on  the  choice  of  friends, 
Our  good  or  evil  name  depends.         GAY. 
Inquiries  from  friends  fret  and  gall  more,  and 
the  memory  of  them  is  not  so  easily  obliterated. 

ARBUTHNOT. 

It  is  a  rare  friendship  that  will  tell  a  man 
his  faults. 

HENRY  WARD  BEECHER. 

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FRIENDSHIP. 

Friendship  improves  happiness,  and  abates 
misery,  by  the  doubling  of  our  joy  and  the 
dividing  of  our  grief.  CICERO. 

The  firmest  friendships  have  been  formed  in 
mutual  adversity ;  as  iron  is  most  strongly 
united  by  the  fiercest  flame.  COLTON. 

Friendship  is  the  shadow  of  the  evening, 
which  strengthens  with  the  setting  sun  of  life. 

LA  FONTAINE. 

A  long  novitiate  of  acquaintance  should  pre- 
cede the  vows  of  friendship. 

LORD  BOLINGBROKE. 

"  A  friend  is  most  a  friend  of  whom  the  best 
remains  to  learn." 

"  True  friends  visit  us  in  prosperity  only  when 
invited,  but  in  adversity  they  come  uninvited." 

"  That  friendship  only  is  indeed  genuine  when 
two  friends,  without  speaking  a  word  to  each 
other,  can  nevertheless  find  happiness  in  being 
together." 

Better  be  a  nettle  in  the  side  of  your  friend 
than  his  echo.  R.  W.  EMERSON. 

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FRIENDSHIP  — GIVING. 

"  True  friendship's  laws  are  by  this  law  expressed  : 
Welcome  the  coming,  speed  the  parting  guest" 

HOMER. 

The  only  reward  of  virtue  is  virtue  ;  the  only 
way  to  have  a  friend  is  to  be  one. 

R.  W.  EMERSON. 

It  is  the  ordinary  lot  of  people  to  have  no 
friends,  if  they  themselves  care  for  nobody. 

THACKERAY. 

GIVING. 

One  must  be  poor  to  know  the  luxury  of 
giving  !  GEORGE  ELIOT. 

A  word  warm  from  the  heart  enriches  me. 

Flowers  and  fruits  are  always  fit  presents  ; 
flowers  because  they  are  a  proud  assertion  that 
a  ray  of  beauty  outvalues  all  the  utilities  of  the 
world.  Fruits  are  acceptable  gifts,  because  they 
are  the  flower  of  commodities,  and  admit  of 
fantastic  values  being  attached  to  them. 

R.  W.  EMERSON. 

Who  gives  himself  with  his  alms  feeds  three  ; 
Himself,  his  hungering  neighbor  and  me. 

J.  R.  LOWELL. 
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GOD  —  HIS   LOVE. 

St.  Augustine  described  the  nature  of  God  as 
a  circle  whose  center  was  everywhere,  and  its 
circumference  nowhere. 

God  is  a  spirit,  and  they  that  worship  him 
must  worship  him  in  spirit  and  in  truth. 

Bible. 

All  are  but  parts  of  one  stupendous  whole, 
Whose  body  Nature  is,  and  God  the  soul. 

POPE. 

God  is  a  spirit,  infinite,  eternal  and  unchange- 
able, in  his  being,  wisdom,  power,  holiness,  jus- 
tice, goodness  and  truth.  Catechism. 

GOD'S   LOVE. 
"  Could  we  with  ink  the  ocean  fill, 

Were  the  whole  earth  of  parchment  made, 
Were  every  blade  of  grass  a  quill, 

And  every  man  a  scribe  by  trade, 
To  write  the  love  of  God  above 

Would  drain  the  ocean  dry, 
Nor  could  the  scroll  contain  the  whole 
Though  stretched  from  sky  to  sky." 
There  is  no  creature  so  small  and  abject,  that 
it  representeth  not  the  goodness  of  God. 

THOMAS  A  KEMPIS. 
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GOD'S  LOVE. 

God  is  love,  His  mercy  brightens 
All  the  path  in  which  we  rove ; 
Bliss  He  wakes,  and  woe  he  lightens, 
God  is  wisdom,  God  is  love. 

JOHN  BOWRING. 

There's  nothing  bright  above,  below, 
From  flowers  that  bloom  to  stars  that  glow, 
But  in  its  light  my  soul  can  see 
Some  feature  of  Thy  Deity. 

THOMAS  MOORE. 

Love,  and  God  will  pay  you  with  the  capacity 
of  more  love ;  for  love  is  Heaven  —  love  is  God 
within  you.  ROBERTSON. 

Henceforth  my  heart  shall  sigh  no  more 
For  olden  time  and  holier  shore  ; 
God's  love  and  blessing,  then  and  there, 
Are  now  and  here  and  everywhere. 

J.  G.  WHITTIER. 

God's  fullness  flows  around  our  incompleteness ; 
Round  our  restlessness,  his  rest. 

E.  B.  BROWNING. 

The  superfluous  blossoms  on  a  fruit  tree  are 
meant  to  symbolize  the  large  way  in  which  God 
loves  to  do  pleasant  things. 

H.  W.  BEECHER. 
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GRATITUDE  —  HAPPINESS. 

I've  heard  of  hearts  unkind,  kind  deeds 
With  coldness  still  returning ; 
Alas,  the  gratitude  of  men 
Hath  often  left  me  mourning. 

WORDSWORTH. 

The  gratitude  of  most  men  is  but  a  secret  de- 
sire of  receiving  greater  benefits. 

ROCHEFOUCAULD. 

"  Thankfulness  is  the  beginning  of  gratitude  ; 
gratitude  is  the  completion  of  thankfulness." 
He  that  hath  nature  in  him,  must  be  grateful ; 
'Tis  the  Creator's  primary  great  law 
That  links  the  chain  of  beings  to  each  other. 

MADDEN. 

A  grateful  mind 

By  owing  owes  not,  but  still  pays,  at  once 
Indebted  and  discharged. 

MILTON. 

HAPPINESS. 

I  count  myself  in  nothing  else  so  happy 

As  in  a  soul  remembering  my  good  friends. 

I  would  that  happiness  were  gold,  that  I 

Might  cast  my  largess  of  it  to  the  crowd. 

SHAKESPEARE. 
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HAPPINESS. 

To  persevere  in  any  evil  course  makes  you 
unhappy  in  this  life.  WAKE. 

"  A  happy  temper  like  the  ^Eolian  harp,  sings 
to  every  breeze." 

Happy  are  they,  my  son,  who  shall  learn  from 
thy  example  not  to  despair ;  but  shall  remember, 
that  though  the  day  is  past,  and  their  strength 
is  wasted,  there  yet  remains  one  effort  to  be 
made  ;  that  reformation  is  never  hopeless,  nor 
sincere  endeavor  ever  unassisted. 

SAMUEL  JOHNSON. 

All  who  joy  would  win  must  share  it  — 
Happiness  was  born  a  twin.  BYRON. 

Our  happiness  in  this  world  depends  on  the 
affection  we  are  enabled  to  inspire. 

DUCHESS  DU  PLASTIN. 

He  is  happy  whose  circumstances  suit  his 
temper,  but  he  is  more  excellent  who  can  suit 
his  temper  to  any  circumstances.  HUME. 

Make  people  happy,  and  there  will  not  be 
half  the  quarreling  or  a  tenth  part  of  the  wick- 
edness there  is.  LYDIA  M.  CHILD. 
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HEAVEN. 

Go  wing  thy  flight  from  star  to  star, 
From  world  to  luminous  world,  as  far 
As  the  universe  spreads  its  flaming  walls ; 
Take  all  the  pleasures  of  all  the  spheres 
And  multiply  each  through  endless  years, 
One  minute  of  heaven  is  worth  them  all. 

THOMAS  MOORE. 

Think  of  heaven  with  hearty  purposes  and 
peremptory  designs  to  get  thither. 

JEREMY  TAYLOR. 

The  Power  that  call'd  thee  into  life  has  skill  to 

make  thee  live, 
A  place  of  refuge  can  provide,  another  being 

give; 
Can  clothe  thy  perishable  form  with  beauty  rich 

and  rare, 
And,  "when  He  takes  his  jewels  up,"  grant  thee 

a  station  there.     BISHOP  RICHARD  MANT. 

A  soul  inspired  with  the  warmest  aspirations 
after  celestial  beatitude  keeps  its  powers  atten- 
tive. DR.  I.  WATTS. 

"  For  love  is  heaven,  and  heaven  is  love." 
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HISTORY HOME. 

History  is  the  complement  of  Poetry. 

SIR  J.  STEVENS. 

History  is  a  mighty  drama,  enacted  upon  the 
theater  of  time,  with  suns  for  lamps,  and  Eter- 
nity for  a  background.  CARLYLE. 

All  literature  writes  the  character  of  the  wise 
man. 

"  What  is  history,"  said  Napoleon,  "  but  a 
fable  agreed  upon  ? " 

The  Doric  temple  preserves  the  semblance  of 
the  wooden  cabin  in  which  the  Dorian  dwelt. 
The  Chinese  pagoda  is  plainly  a  Tartar  tent. 

R.  W.  EMERSON. 

HOME. 

Home's  not  merely  four  square  walls, 

Though  with  pictures  hung  and  gilded  ; 
Home  is  where  Affection  calls,  — 

Filled  with  shrines  the  heart  hath  builded ! 
Home  !  go  watch  the  faithful  dove, 

Sailing  'neath  the  heaven  above  us  ; 
Home  is  where  there's  one  to  love  ! 

Home  is  where  there's  one  to  love  us ! 

CHARLES  SWAIN. 
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HOME. 

The  ornaments  of  a  home  are  the  friends  who 
frequent  it.  EMERSON. 

The  strength  of  a  nation,  especially  of  a  re- 
publican nation,  is  in  the  intelligent  and  well- 
ordered  homes  of  the  people. 

MRS.    SlGOURNEY. 

Home  is  the  resort 

Of  love,  of  joy,  of  peace  and  plenty,  where 
Supported  and  supporting,  polished  friends 
And  dear  relations  mingle  into  bliss. 

THOMPSON. 

By  the  fireside  still  the  light  is  shining, 
The  children's  arms  round  the  parents  twining. 
From  love  so  sweet,  O  who  would  roam  ? 
Be  it  ever  so  homely,  home  is  home. 

D.  M.  MULOCK. 

Home  is  the  sacred  refuge  of  our  life. 

DRYDEN. 

"  Home,  ye  may  be  high  or  lowly, 
Hearts  alone  can  make  you  holy. 
Be  the  dwelling  e'er  so  small, 
Having  love  it  boasteth  all." 

The    sweetest    words    ear    ever    heard    are 
mother,  home,  and  heaven. 
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HONESTY. 

Honesty  coupled  to  beauty  is  to  have  honey 
a  sauce  to  sugar.  SHAKESPEARE. 

An  honest  death  is  better  than  a  dishonest 
life.  SOCRATES. 

What  is  becoming  is  honest,  and  whatever  is 
honest  must  always  be  becoming.  CICERO. 

Heaven  that  made  me  honest,  made  me  more 
Than  ever  king  did  when  he  made  a  lord. 

ROWE, 

The  more  honesty  a  man  has,  the   less  he 
affects  the  air  of  a  saint.  LAVATER. 

There  is  no  sound  basis  of  power  but  honesty. 

J.  G.  HOLLAND. 

Ay,  sir  ;  to  be  honest,  as  this  world  goes,  is  to 
be  one  man  pick'd  out  of  two  thousand. 

SHAKESPEARE. 

An  honest  man  is  the  noblest  work  of  God. 

POPE. 

Lands   mortgaged   may   return   and    more   es- 
teemed ; 
But  honesty  once  pawned  is  ne'er  redeemed. 

MlDDLETON. 

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IDLENESS  —  INDOLENCE. 

An  idle  youth  —  a  needy  age. 

Idleness  is  the  mother  of  all  mischief. 

Old  Proverb. 

An  idle  brain  is  the  Devil's  work-shop. 

Absence  of  occupation  is  not  rest, 
A  mind  quite  vacant  is  a  mind  distressed. 

COWPER. 

An  idler  is  a  watch  that  wants  both  hands; 
As  useless  if  it  goes  as  if  it  stands. 

COWPER. 

If  you  have  but  an  hour,  will  you  not  improve 
that  hour,  instead  of  idling  it  away  ? 

CHESTERFIELD. 

INDOLENCE. 

Lives  spent  in  indolence,  and  therefore  sad. 

COWPER. 

Who  conquers  indolence  will  conquer  all  the 

rest.  ZIMMERMAN. 

I  look  upon  indolence  as  a  sort  of  suicide ; 
for  the  man  is  effectually  destroyed,  though  the 
appetite  of  the  brute  may  survive. 

LORD  CHESTERFIELD. 


INDUSTRY. 

Industry  hath  annexed  thereto  the  finest 
fruits  and  the  richest  rewards.  BARROW. 

Round  swings  the  hammer  of  industry, 

Quickly  the  sharp  chisel  rings, 
And  the  heart  of  the  toiler  has  throbbings 

That  stir  not  the  bosom  of  kings,  — 
He  the  true  ruler  and  conqueror, 

He  the  true  king  of  his  race, 
Who  nerveth  his  arm  for  life's  combat, 

And  looks  the  whole  world  in  the  face. 

DR.  F.  MCCARTHY. 

In  every  rank,  or  great  or  small 

'Tis  industry  supports  us  all.  GAY. 

Never  the  ocean  wave  falters  in  flowing ; 
Never  the  little  seed  stops  in  its  growing ; 
More  and   more   richly  the  rose   heart   keeps 

glowing, 
Till  from  the  nourishing  stem  it  is  riven. 

F.  S.  OSGOOD. 

A  man  who  gives  his  children  habits  of  indus- 
try, provides  for  them  better  than  by  giving 
them  a  fortune.  WHATELY. 

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INFLUENCE. 

If  we  work  upon  marble,  it  will  perish  ;  if  we 
work  upon  brass,  time  will  efface  it ;  if  we  rear 
temples,  they  will  crumble  into  dust ;  but  if  we 
work  upon  immortal  minds,  if  we  imbue  them 
with  right  principles,  with  the  just  fear  of  God 
and  love  of  our  fellowmen,  we  engrave  on  those 
tablets  something  which  will  brighten  to  all 
eternity.  DANIEL  WEBSTER. 

Our  many  deeds,  the  thoughts  that  we  have 

thought, 

They  go  out  from  us  thronging  every  hour ; 
And  in  them  each  is  folded  up  a  power 
That   on   the  earth   doth   move  them   to   and 

fro; 

And  mighty  are  the  marvels  they  have  wrought 
In  hearts  we  know  not  and  may  never  know. 

"  There  is  no  end  to  the  sky, 
And  the  stars  are  everywhere, 
And  time  is  eternity, 
And  the  here  is  over  there  ; 
For  the  common  deeds  of  the  common  day 
Are  ringing  bells  in  the  far  away." 
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INFLUENCE. 

Life  is  made  up,  not  of  great  sacrifices  or 
duties,  but  of  little  things,  in  which  smiles,  and 
kindnesses  and  small  obligations  given  habit- 
ually, are  what  win  and  preserve  the  heart  and 
secure  comfort.  SIR  H.  DAVY. 

Air  and  manner  are  more  expressive  than 
words.  S.  RICHARDSON. 

You  cannot  afford  to  do  anything  but  what  is 
good.  You  are  on  dress  parade  all  the  time. 

BOB   BURDETTE. 

A  man's  strength  in  this  life  is  often  greater 
from  some  single  word,  remembered  and  cher- 
ished, than  in  arms  or  armor. 

H.  W.  BEECHER. 

No  action,  whether  foul  or  fair, 

Is  ever  done,  but  it  leaves  somewhere 

A  record  written  by  fingers  ghostly, 

As  a  blessing  or  a  curse  ;  but  mostly, 

In  the  greater  weakness  or  greater  strength 

Of  the  acts  which  follow  it,  till  at  length, 

The  wrongs  of  ages  are  redressed, 

And  the  justice  of  God  made  manifest. 

H.  W.  LONGFELLOW. 
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INFLUENCE. 

As  ships  meet  at  sea,  a  moment  together 
when  words  of  greeting  must  be  spoken,  and 
then  away  upon  the  deep,  so  men  meet  in  this 
world ;  and  I  think  we  should  cross  no  man's 
path  without  hailing  him,  and,  if  he  needs,  giv- 
ing him  supplies.  H.  W.  BEECHER. 

Every  man  however  humble  his  station,  or 
feeble  his  power,  exercises  some  influence  on 
those  who  are  about  him,  for  good  or  for  evil. 

A.  SEDGWICK. 

"  The  seed  we  sow  within  the  soil  to-day, 

The  morrow's  sun  will  ripen  into  grain : 
The  deeds  we  do  within  this  mortal  clay 
Are  steps  by  which  the  summit  we  may  gain 

To-morrow." 

Our  echoes  roll  from  soul  to  soul, 
And  grow  forever  and  forever. 

TENNYSON. 

Cast  forth  thy  act,  thy  word,  into  the  ever- 
lasting, ever-working  universe  :  it  is  a  seed 
grain  that  cannot  die  :  unnoticed  to-day,  it  will 
be  found  flourishing  as  a  banyan  grove,  perhaps, 
alas,  as  a  hemlock  forest,  after  a  thousand 
years.  CARLYLE. 

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INFLUENCE. 

O'er  wayward  childhood  wouldst  thou  hold  firm 

rule, 

And  sun  thee  in  the  light  of  happy  faces ; 
Love,  Hope  and  Patience,  these  must  be  thy 

graces, 
And  in   thine   own   heart  let  them   first   keep 

school.  COLERIDGE. 

Sow  love  and  taste  its  fruitage  pure, 
Sow  peace  and  reap  its  harvest  bright, 

Sow  sunshine  on  the  rock  and  moor, 
And  find  a  harvest-home  of  light. 

HORATIUS   BONAR. 

Not  one  sentence  that  passes  these  lips  of 
ours  but  must  be  an  invisibly  prolonged  influ- 
ence, not  dying  away  into  silence,  but  living 
away  into  the  words  and  deeds  of  others. 

F.  R.  HAVERGAL. 

"  The  influence  of  woman  more  or  less  affects, 
for  good  or  for  evil,  the  entire  destinies  of 
mankind." 

"  Though  the  head  may  rule,  it  is  the  heart 
that  influences." 

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INFLUENCE  —  INGRATITUDE. 

The  home  may  be  regarded  as  the  most  in- 
fluential school  of  civilization.  The  mother, far 
more  than  the  father,  influences  the  action  and 
conduct  of  the  child,  for  her  good  example  is  of 
much  greater  importance  in  the  house. 

SAMUEL  SMILES. 

Nor  is  a  true  soul  ever  born  for  naught, 

Wherever  any  such  hath  lived  and  died, 
There  hath  been  something,  fortune,  freedom, 

wrought, 
Some  bulwark  leveled  on  the  evil  side. 

J.  R.  LOWELL. 

INGRATITUDE. 

I  hate  ingratitude  in  a  man,  more 

Than  lying,  vainness,  babbling,  drunkenness, 

Or  any  taint  of  vice.  SHAKESPEARE. 

He  that  is  ungrateful  has  no  guilt  but  one  ; 
all  other  crimes  may  pass  for  virtues  in  him. 

DR.  YOUNG. 

"  Ingratitude  is  the  Aaron's  rod  which  swal- 
lows up  and  comprises  in  itself  all  the  lesser 
vices." 

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JUSTICE. 

Justice  while  she  winks  at  crimes 
Stumbles  on  innocence  sometimes. 

BUTLER. 

Just  men  are  only  free,  the  rest  are  slaves. 

CHAPMAN. 

Man  is  unjust,  but  God  is  just ;  and  finally 
justice  triumphs.  LONGFELLOW. 

What  stronger  breastplate  than  a  heart  untainted, 
Thrice  is  he  armed  who  hath  his  quarrel  just, 
And  he  but  naked,  though  locked  up  in  steel, 
Whose  conscience  with  injustice  is  corrupted. 

SHAKESPEARE. 

"  Justice  is  the  foundation,  or  mainstay  of 
kingdoms,  the  rock  on  which  kingdoms  are 
founded." 

"  Faith,  fidelity,  truth,  honesty,  is  the  ground- 
work of  Justice." 

"Justice  consists  in  doing  no  injury  to  men: 
decency,  in  giving  them  no  offense." 

"Unsullied  faith,  of  soul  sincere, 
Of  justice  pure  the  sister  fair." 


KINDNESS  —  KNOWLEDGE. 

"  To  think  kindly  one  of  another  is  good,  to 
speak  kindly  one  of  another  is  better,  and  to  act 
kindly  one  to  another  is  best  of  all." 

"  How  many  acts  of  kindness 

A  little  child  may  do, 
Although  it  has  so  little  strength 

And  little  wisdom,  too ! 
It  wants  a  loving  spirit 

Much  more  than  strength,  to  prove 
How  many  things  a  child  may  do 

For  others,  by  its  love." 

KNOWLEDGE. 

Knowledge  is  that  which  next  to  virtue,  truly 
and  essentially  raises  one  man  above  another. 

ADDISON. 

He  that  doth  not  know  those  things  which  are 
of  use  for  him  to  know  is  but  an  ignorant  man, 
whatever  he  may  know  besides. 

There  is  a  knowledge  which  is  very  proper  to 
man,  and  lies  level  to  human  understanding  — 
the  knowledge  of  our  Creator  and  of  the  duty 
we  owe  to  him.  TILLOTSON. 

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KNOWLEDGE. 

Knowledge  is  a  rude,  unprofitable  mass 
The  mere  material  with  which  Wisdom  builds, 
Till   smoothed   and   squared    and  fitted  to  its 

place, 

Does  but  encumber  what  it  seems  to  enrich. 
Knowledge  is   proud   that   he   has  learned   so 

much  ; 
Wisdom  is  humble  that  he  knows  no  more. 

COWPER. 

What  we  acquire  is  knowledge ;  what  we 
develop  is  culture.  J.  G.  HOLLAND. 

The  Lord  is  God  of  knowledge,  and  by  him 
actions  are  weighed.  Bible. 

The  desire  of  knowledge,  like  the  thirst  for 
riches,  increases  ever  with  the  acquisition  of 
it.  STERNE. 

One  never  knows  that  he  knows  anything  till 
he  finds  himself  able  to  tell  others  of  it. 

BRAINERD  KELLOGG. 

Knowledge  and  wisdom  far  from  being  one, 
Have  oft  times  no  connection. 

Knowledge  dwells 

In  heads  replete  with  thoughts  of  other  men; 
Wisdom  in  minds  attentive  to  their  own. 

COWPER. 


LAWS — LESSONS. 

"  Strict   laws   are   like   steel  bodice,  good   for 

growing  limbs  ; 
But  when  the  joints  are  knit,  they  are  not  helps 

but  burdens." 

We  must  not  make  a  scarecrow  of  the  law, 
Setting  it  up  to  fear  the  birds  of  prey, 
And  let  it  keep  one  shape  till  custom  make  it 
Their  perch  and  not  their  terror.    SHAKESPEARE. 

All  law  that  man  is  obliged  by,  is  reducible  to 
the  law  of  nature,  the  positive  law  of  God  in  his 
word,  and  the  law  of  man  enacted  by  the  civil 
power.  SOUTH. 

Law  is  the  science  in  which  the  greatest 
powers  of  the  understanding  are  applied  to  the 
greatest  number  of  facts.  DR.  JOHNSON. 

LESSONS. 

One  of  the  lessons  a  woman  most  rarely  learns, 
is  never  to  talk  to  an  angry  or  a  drunken  man. 

GEORGE  ELIOT. 

Let  our  lives  be  pure  as  snow-fields,  where 
our  footsteps  leave  a  mark,  but  not  a  stain. 

MADAME  SWETCHINE. 
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LIFE. 

We  sleep,  but  the  loom  of  life  never  stops ; 
and  the  pattern  which  was  weaving  when  the 
sun  went  down  is  weaving  when  it  comes  up 
to-morrow. 

God  asks  no  man  whether  he  will  accept  life. 
That  is  not  the  choice.  You  must  take  it.  The 
only  choice  is  how.  H.  W.  BEECHER. 

Life  is  a  short  day  ;  but  it  is  a  working  day. 
Activity  may  lead  to  evil ;  but  inactivity  cannot 
be  led  to  good.  HANNAH  MORE. 

"  Life  is  a  sum,  and  it  becomes  us  to  do  it 
properly  as  it  can  be  done  but  once." 

It  seems  that  life  is  all  a  void, 
On  selfish  thoughts  alone  employed  ; 
That  length  of  days  is  not  a  good, 
Unless  their  use  be  understood. 

JANE  TAYLOR. 

Life  alone  can  impart  life,  and  though  we 
should  burst,  we  can  only  be  valued  as  we  make 
ourselves  valuable.  R.  W.  EMERSON. 

Not  what  we  would,  but  what  we  must, 
Make  up  the  sum  of  living. 

R.  H.  STODDARD. 
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LIFE. 

Life  like  a  dome  of  many  colored  glass, 
Stains  the  white  radiance  of  eternity. 

SHELLEY. 

My   life   is   the   living  force  I  exert  among 
men.  STEWART. 

We  live  in  deeds,  not  years  ;  in  thoughts,  not 
breaths ; 

In  feelings,  not  in  figures  on  a  dial. 

We  should  count  time  by  heart  throbs. 

He  most  lives, 

Who   thinks  most,  feels  the   noblest,  acts   the 

best.  P.  J.  BAILEY. 

Every  man's  life  is  within  the  present ;  for 

the  past  is  spent  and  done  with,  and  the  future 

is  uncertain.  ANTONINUS. 

Circles  are  prais'd  not  that  abound 
In  largeness,  but  th'  exactly  round: 
So  life  we  praise,  that  does  excel 
Not  in  much  time,  but  acting  well. 

WALLER. 
The   golden   moments  in  the   stream  of   life 

rush  past  us,  and  we  see  nothing  but  sand ;  the 

angels  come  to  visit  us,  and  we  only  know  them 

when  they  are  gone.  GEORGE  ELIOT. 

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LOVE  —  MAN. 

He  that  loveth  not,  knoweth  not  God;  for 
God  is  love. 

Let  brotherly  love  continue.  Bible. 

Love  is  ownership.  We  own  whom  we 
love.  The  universe  is  God's  because  he  loves. 

H.  W.  BEECHER. 

We  can  make  it  a  Christian  duty,  not  only  to 
love,  but  to  be  loving  —  not  only  to  be  true 
friends,  but  to  show  ourselves  friendly. 

H.  B.  STOWE. 

With  all  thy  heart  love  God  above, 
And  as  thyself  thy  neighbor  love. 

MAN. 

Make  yourself  an  honest  man,  and  then  you 
may  be  sure  that  there  is  one  rascal  less  in  the 
world.  CARLYLE. 

Men  are  frequently  like  tea,  their  real  strength 
and  goodness  is  not  drawn  out  till  they  have 
been  for  a  short  time  in  hot  water. 

Cruikshantfs  Almanac. 

Young  men  think  old  men  fools,  and  old  men 
know  young  men  to  be  so.  Ray's  Proverbs. 

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MAN. 

"  Man —  a  big  animal  who  treads  on  things, 
roars  subdued  thunder  when  dinner  isn't  ready, 
and  feeds  himself  like  an  ox." 

The  real  man  is  one  who  always  finds  excuses 
for  others,  but  never  excuses  himself. 

H.  W.  BEECHER. 

Men  of  public  spirit  differ  rather  in  their  cir- 
cumstances than  their  virtues  ;  and  the  man 
who  does  all  he  can  in  a  low  station,  is  more  a 
hero  than  he  who  omits  any  worthy  action  he  is 
able  to  accomplish  in  a  great  one. 

SIR  R.  STEELE. 

What  tho'  on  hamely  fare  we  dine, 
Wear  hoddin  gray,  and  a'  that  ? 

Gie  fools  their  silks  and  knaves  their  wine, 
A  man's  a  man  for  a'  that. 

BURNS. 

How  wonderful  a  being  is  man,  when  viewed 
in  the  light  of  his  achievements. 

J.  G.  HOLLAND. 

Man  is  God's  creation.  Everything  else  is 
the  nursery  and  nurse  of  man. 

H.   W.   BEECHER. 
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MODESTY MOTHERS. 

"  Immodest  words  admit  of  no  defense, 
For  want  of  modesty  is  want  of  sense." 

"  Modesty  is  the  peculiar  characteristic  of  a 
virtuous  woman,  and  is  the  safeguard  of  all 
virtue. " 

Modesty  is  to  Merit  as  Shades  to  Figures  in 
a  Picture,  giving  it  Strength  and  Beauty. 

LA  BRUYERE. 

Mere  Bashfulness  without  Merit  is  awkward  ; 
and  Merit  without  Modesty  insolent.  But 
Modest  Merit  has  a  double  claim  to  acceptance. 

HUGHES. 

MOTHERS. 

The  child  taketh  the  most  of  his  nature  from 
the  mother,  besides  speech,  manners,  and  incli- 
nation, which  are  agreeable  to  the  conditions  of 
their  mothers.  EDMUND  SPENSER. 

Even  He  that  died  for  us  upon  the  cross,  in 
the  last  hour,  in  the  unutterable  agony  of  death 
was  mindful  of  his  mother,  as  if  to  teach  us  that 
this  holy  love  should  be  our  last  worldly  thought, 
the  last  point  of  earth  from  which  the  soul 
should  take  its  flight  to  Heaven. 

H.  W.  LONGFELLOW. 

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MOTHERS. 

My  mother's  voice  !  how  often  creep 

Its  accents  o'er  my  lonely  hours ; 
Like  healing  sent  on  wings  of  sleep, 

Or  dew  to  the  unconscious  flowers. 
I  can  forget  her  melting  prayer 

When  leaping  pulses  madly  fly, 
But  on  the  chill,  unbroken  air 

Her  gentle  tones  come  stealing  by, 

And  years  and  sin  and  manhood  flee, 

And  leave  me  at  my  mother's  knee. 

N.  P.  WILLIS. 

A  mother's  example  sinks  down  into  the 
heart  of  her  child,  like  snow-flakes  into  the 
heart  of  the  ocean.  H.  O.  WARD. 

On  every  land  —  in  every  clime  — 

True  to  her  sacred  cause, 
Filled  by  that  effluence  sublime 

From  which  her  strength  she  draws, 
Still  is  the  mother's  heart  the  same  — 

The  mother's  lot  as  tried  : 
Then,  Oh  !  may  Nations  guard  that  name 
With  filial  power  and  pride. 

CHARLES  SWAIN. 

The  mother's  heart  is  the  child's  school-room. 

H.  W.  BEECHER. 
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MUSIC  —  NEATNESS. 

Men's  muscles  move  better  when  their  souls 
are  making  merry  music.  GEORGE  ELIOT. 

There's  music  in  the  sighing  of  a  reed : 
There's  music  in  the  gushing  of  a  rill : 
There's  music  in  all  things  if  men  had  ears : 
Their  earth  is  but  an  echo  of  the  spheres. 

BYRON. 

—  Feeling  hearts  —  touch  them  but  rightly  — 

pour 
A  thousand  melodies  unheard  before. 

MOORE. 

All  one's  life  is  music,  if  one  touches  the 
notes  rightly,  and  in  time.  RUSKIN. 

NEATNESS. 

Certainly  this  is  a  duty,  not  a  sin, 
Cleanliness  is  next  to  godliness. 

JOHN  WESLEY. 

Cleanliness  was  ever  esteemed  to  proceed 
from  a  due  reverence  to  God.  BACON. 

"  True  gentility  shows  itself  in  a  neat,  well- 
ordered  home,  where  sunshine  and  joy  abound, 
and  where  all  the  inmates  are  linked  together 
by  the  golden  chains  of  love." 

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NOBLENESS —  OBEDIENCE. 

"  If  you  intend  to  do  a  mean  thing,  wait  till 
to-morrow.  If  you  are  to  do  a  noble  thing,  do 
it  now." 

"  As  one  lamp  lights  another,  nor  grows  less, 
So  nobleness  enkindleth  nobleness." 

OBEDIENCE. 

Obedience  is  a  complicated  act  of  virtue,  and 
many  graces  are  exercised  in  one  act  of 
obedience.  JEREMY  TAYLOR. 

To  prayer,  repentance  and  obedience  due, 
Though  but  endeavored  with  sincere  intent ; 
Mine  ear  shall  not  be  slow,  mine  eye  not  shut. 

MILTON. 

"  Government  must  compel  the  obedience  of 
individuals  ;  otherwise  who  will  seek  its  protec- 
tion or  fear  its  vengeance." 

Sons  of  heav'n  and  earth, 
Attend:  That  thou  art  happy,  owe  to  God: 
That  thou  continuest  such,  owe  to  thyself, 
That  is  to  thy  obedience  :  therein  stand. 

MILTON. 

Obey  them  that  have  the  rule  over  you,  and 
submit  yourselves.  Bible. 

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ORDER  —  PEACE. 

"  Nothing  helps  the  memory  so  much  as  order 
and  classification." 

Order  is  Heaven's  first  law  and  this  confessed, 
Some  are  and  must  be  greater  than  the  rest. 

POPE. 

Science  in  all  its  discoveries,  tends  to  the  dis- 
covery of  universal  order.  FLEMING. 

Order  is  the  sanity  of  the  mind,  the  health  of 
the  body,  the  peace  of  the  city,  the  security  of 
the  State.  SOUTHEY. 

PEACE. 

Speak  gently  !  He  who  gave  his  life 

To  bend  man's  stubborn  will 
When  elements  were  fierce  with  strife 

Said  to  them,  Peace,  be  still. 

BATES. 

Peace,  greatness  best  becomes. 

Calm  pow'r  doth  guide, 

With  a  far  more  imperious  stateliness, 

Than  all  the  swords  of  violence  can  do  : 

And  easier  gains  those  ends  she  tends  unto. 

DANIEL. 
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PATIENCE. 

"  If  thou  bearest  slight  provocations  with 
patience,  it  shall  be  imputed  unto  thee  for  wis- 
dom, and  if  thou  wipest  them  from  thy  remem- 
brance, thy  heart  shall  feel  rest,  thy  mind  shall 
not  reproach  thee." 

If  you've  tried  and  have  not  won, 

Never  stop  for  crying  ; 
All  that's  good  and  great  is  done 

Just  by  patient  trying. 

PHCEBE  GARY. 

It  is  easy  finding  reasons  why  other  people 
should  be  patient.  GEORGE  ELIOT. 

Practice  patience,  I  can  tell  you  that  requires 
nearly  as  much  practice  as  music ;  and  we  are 
continually  losing  our  lesson  when  the  master 
comes.  JOHN  RUSKIN. 

I  worked  with  patience,  which  is  almost  power. 

E.  B.  BROWNING. 

That  thou  mayst  pray  for  them  thy  foes  are 

given : 
I   bring   thee  fretful  friends    that  thou  mayst 

train 

Thy  soul  to  patience.  KEBLE. 

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PERSEVER  ANC  E PATRIOTISM. 

"  Never  give  up;  for  the  wisest  is  boldest, 
Knowing  that  Providence  mingles  the  cup, 
And  of  all  maxims,  the  best  as  the  oldest, 
Is  the  true  watchword  of  *  Never  give  up.' " 

"  He  conquers  who  endures." 

Attempt  the  end  and  never  stand  to  doubt : 
Nothing's  so  hard  but  search  will  find  it  out. 

HERRICK. 

Those  who  attain  any  excellence  commonly 
spend  life  in  one  common  pursuit ;  for  excellence 
is  not  often  gained  upon  easier  terms. 

DR.  S.  JOHNSON. 

Attempt  the  end,  and  never  stand  to  doubt ! 
Nothing's  so  hard  but  search  will  find  it  out. 

R.  HERRICK. 

PATRIOTISM. 

I  fancy  the  proper  means  of  increasing  the 
love  we  bear  our  native  country  is  to  reside 
some  time  in  a  foreign  one.  SHENSTONE. 

Breathes  there  the  man  with  soul  so  dead 
Who  never  to  himself  hath  said, 

"  This  is  my  own,  my  native  land  ?  " 

SCOTT. 
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PATRIOTISM. 

Be  just  and  fear  not. 

Let  all  the  ends  thou  aim'st  at  be  thy  country's, 
Thy  God's  and  truth's :  then  if  thou  fallest,  O 

Cromwell ! 
Thou  fallest  a  blessed  martyr. 

SHAKESPEARE. 

Strike  —  till  the  last  armed  foe  expires  ; 
Strike  —  for  your  altars  and  your  fires ; 
Strike  —  for  the  green  graves  of  your  sires. 
God  and  your  native  land  ! 

FITZ- GREENE  HALLECK. 

One  flag,  one  land,  one  heart,  one  hand, 
One  nation  evermore.  HOLMES. 

O  Land  of  lands  !  to  thee  we  give 

Our  prayers,  our  hopes,  our  service  free, 

For  thee  thy  sons  shall  nobly  live, 
And  at  thy  need  shall  die  for  thee  ! 

J.  G.  WHITTIER. 

Our  Country  first,  their  glory  and  their  pride, 
Land  of  their  hopes,  land  where  their  fathers 

died, 

When  in  the  right,  they'll  keep  thy  honor  bright, 
When  in  the  wrong,  they'll  die  to  set  it  right. 

JAMES  T.  FIELDS. 
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PRAYER. 

When  you  lie  down,  close  your  eyes  with  a 
short  prayer,  commit  yourself  into  the  hands  of 
your  faithful  Creator  ;  and  when  you  have  done 
trust  Him  with  yourself;  as  you  must  do  when 
you  are  dying.  JEREMY  TAYLOR. 

Be  not  afraid  to  pray  —  to  pray  is  right ; 
Pray  if  thou  canst  in  hope,  —  O,  ever  pray, 
If  hope  be  weak  and  sick  with  long  delay 
Pray  in  the  darkness,  if  thou  hast  no  light. 
HARTLEY  COLERIDGE. 

Let  prayer  be  the  key  of  the  morning,  and  the 
bolt  of  the  evening.  MATTHEW  HENRY.. 

Let  the  day  have  a  blessed  baptism  by  giving 
your  first  waking  thoughts  into  the  bosom  of 
God.  The  first  hour  of  the  morning  is  the 
rudder  of  the.day.  H.  W.  BEECHER. 

Sister,  the  holy  maid  does  well 

Who  counts  her  beads  in  convent  cell, 

Where  pale  devotion  lingers ; 
But  she  who  serves  the  sufferer's  needs, 
Whose  prayers  are  spent  in  loving  deeds, 
May  trust  the  Lord  will  count  her  beads, 
As  well  as  human  fingers. 

O.  W.  HOLMES. 
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PRAYER. 

I  pray  the  prayer  of  Plato  old, 
God  make  thee  beautiful  within, 

And  let  thine  eyes  the  good  behold, 
In  everything  save  sin. 

J.  G.  WHITTIER. 

Prayer  is  Innocence's  friend,  and  willingly  flieth 

incessant, 
'Twixt  the  earth  and  the  sky,  the  carrier  pigeon 

of  Heaven.  H.  W.  LONGFELLOW. 

Though  oft  like  letters  traced  in  sand 
My  weak  resolves  have  passed  away, 

In  mercy  lend  thy  helping  hand 
Unto  my  prayers  to-day. 

J.  G.  WHITTIER. 

Thrice  blest  whose  lives  are  faithful  prayers, 
Whose  loves  in  higher  love  endure, 
Whose  souls  possess  themselves  so  pure, 

Or  is  there  blessedness  like  theirs  ? 

TENNYSON. 

The  blue  sky  is  the  temple's  arch, 

Its  transept  earth  and  air, 
The  music  of  its  starry  march 
The  chorus  of  its  prayer. 

J.  G.  WHITTIER. 
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PRAYER. 

It  is  not  well  for  a  man  to  pray  cream  and 
live  skim  milk.  H.  W.  BEECHER. 

More  things  are  wrought  by  prayer  than  this 
world  dreams  of.  TENNYSON. 

Trouble  and  perplexity  drive  us  to  prayer,  and 
prayer  drives  away  perplexity  and  trouble. 

MELANCTHON. 

Sinning  makes  you  leave  off  praying,  and 
praying  makes  you  leave  off  sinning. 

J.    SUTCLIFFE. 

He  prayeth  best  who  loveth  best 
All  things  both  great  and  small : 
For  the  dear  God  who  loveth  us, 
He  made  and  loveth  all. 

COLERIDGE. 

Prayer  is  the  chief  thing  that  man  may 
present  to  God.  HERMES. 

Prayer  purifies  ;  it  is  a  self-preached  sermon. 

RICHTER. 

Prayer  is  the  wing  wherewith  the  soul  flies  to 
heaven,  and  meditation  the  eye  wherewith  we 
see  God.  AMBROSE. 

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PRIDE  —  PROCRASTINATION. 

"  When  Pride  leads  the  van, 
Beggary  brings  up  the  rear." 
Because  you  flourish  in  worldly  affairs, 
Don't  be  haughty  and  put  on  airs, 
With  insolent  pride  of  station  ! 
Don't  be  proud  and  turn  up  your  nose 
At  poorer  people  in  plainer  clo'es, 
But  learn  for  the  sake  of  your  soul's  repose 
That  wealth's  a  bubble  that  comes  and  goes, 
And  that  all  proud  flesh,  wherever  it  grows, 
Is  subject  to  irritation.  j.  G.  SAXE. 

Pride  (of  all  others  the  most  dangerous  fault) 
Proceeds  from  want  of  sense  or  want  of  thought. 

ROSCOMMON. 

Pride  is  as  loud  a  beggar  as  Want,  and  a 
great  deal  more  saucy.  When  you  have  bought 
one  fine  thing,  you  must  buy  ten  more,  that 
your  appearance  may  be  all  of  a  piece ;  but  it  is 
easier  to  suppress  the  first  desire  than  to  satisfy 
all  that  follow  it.  FRANKLIN. 

PROCRASTINATION. 

Procrastination  is  the  thief  of  time. 

YOUNG. 

Delay  leads  impotent  and  snail-paced  beggary. 
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PROCRASTINATION. 

Be  wise  to-day ;  'tis  madness  to  defer. 

YOUNG. 

Omission  to  do  what  is  necessary  seals  a 
commission  to  a  blank  of  danger. 

SHAKESPEARE. 

By  the  street  of  "  By  and  By," 

We  arrive  at  the  house  of  "  Never." 

Old  Proverb. 

That  we  would  do, 
We  should  do  when  we  would,  for  this  world 

changes.  SHAKESPEARE. 

Unhappy  he  who  does  his  work  adjourn, 
And  to  to-morrow  would  the  search  delay. 
His  lazy  morrow  will  be  like  to-day. 

DRYDEN. 

Yesterday  was  once  to-morrow.          PERSIUS. 
It  will  not  always  be  summer.  HESIOD. 

Whatever  things  injure  your  Eye,  you  are 
anxious  to  remove  ;  but  things  which  affect  your 
Mind  you  defer.  HORACE. 

Never  defer  that  till  to-morrow  which  you 
can  do  to-day.  BLUDGELL. 

"  One  to-day  is  worth  two  to-morrows." 
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RESIGNATION  —  REVENGE. 

Oh  !  thou  who  mournest  on  thy  way, 
With  longings  for  the  close  of  day, 

He  walks  with  thee,  that  angel  kind, 
And  gently  whispers,  "  Be  resigned  : 

Bear  up,  bear  on,  the  end  shall  tell 

The  dear  Lord  ordereth  all  things  well !  " 

J.  G.  WHITTIER. 

We  must  learn  to  suffer  what  we  cannot  evade. 

MONTAIGNE. 

Things  without  remedy, 

Should  be  without  regard  ?  what's  done  is  done. 

SHAKESPEARE. 

REVENGE. 

A  feeling  of  revenge  is  not  worth  much,  that 
you  should  care  to  keep  it.  GEORGE  ELIOT. 

The  indulgence  of  revenge  tends  to  make 
men  more  savage  and  cruel.  LORD  KAMES. 

Hath  any  wronged  thee  ?  be  bravely  revenged  ; 
sleight  it  and  the  work's  begun  ;  forgive  it,  'tis 
finisht :  he  is  below  himself  that  is  not  above  an 
injury.  QUARLES. 

A  man  that  studieth  revenge  keepeth  his  own 
wounds  green,  which  otherwise  would  heal  and 
do  well.  LORD  BACON. 

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SELF-CONTROL  —  SELFISHNESS. 

Insist  on  yourself,  never  imitate. 

R.  W.  EMERSON. 

He  who  reigns  within  himself,  and  rules 
passions,  desires  and  fears,  is  more  than  a  king. 

MILTON. 

How  many  homes  are  embittered  by  fretful- 
ness  or  jealousy,  how  many  illnesses  aggravated 
by  peevishness  or  discontent,  for  want  of  know- 
ing how  to  commence  the  difficult  task  of  self- 
control.  Household  Words. 

SELFISHNESS. 

Self-love,  my  liege,  is  not  so  vile  a  sin  as 
self-neglecting.  SHAKESPEARE. 

Selfishness  is  that  detestable  vice  which  no 
one  will  forgive  in  others,  and  no  one  is  without 
in  himself.  H.  W.  BEECHER. 

Selfishness  :  a  vice  utterly  at  variance  with 
the  happiness  of  him  who  harbors  it,  and  as 
such,  condemned  by  self-love. 

SIR  J.  MACKINTOSH. 

Have  a  care  how  you  keep  company  with 
those  that,  when  they  find  themselves  upon  a 
pinch,  will  leave  their  friends  in  the  lurch. 

L'ESTRANGE. 
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SELF-DENIAL — SERVING  GOD. 

There  never  did  and  never  will  exist  any- 
thing permanently  noble  and  excellent  in  a 
character  which  was  a  stranger  to  the  exercise 
of  resolute  self-denial.  SCOTT. 

Self-denial  is  a  kind  of  holy  association  with 
God ;  and  by  making  you  his  partner,  interests 
you  in  all  his  happiness.  BOYLE. 

The  more  a  man  denies  himself,  the  more  he 
shall  obtain  from  God.  HORACE. 

A  good  man  not  only  forbears  those  gratifi- 
cations which  are  forbidden  by  reason  and  relig- 
ion, but  even  restrains  himself  in  unforbidden 
instances.  ATTERBURY. 

SERVING   GOD. 

The  Lord  our  God  will  we  serve  and  his 
voice  will  we  obey.  Bible. 

And  ye  shall  succor  men ; 

'Tis  nobleness  to  serve  ; 
Help  them  who  cannot  help  again : 

Beware  from  right  to  swerve. 

EMERSON. 

They  also  serve  who  only  stand  and  wait. 

MILTON. 
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SIN  —  SONS. 

I  couldn't  live  in  peace  if  I  put  the  shadow 
of  a  wilful  sin  between  myself  and  God. 

GEORGE  ELIOT. 

Sin  is  never  at  a  stay ;  if  we  do  not  retreat 
from  it,  we  shall  advance  in  it ;  and  the  further 
on  we  go,  the  more  we  have  to  come  back. 

BARON. 

He  that  falls  into  sin  is  a  man  ;  that  grieves 
over  it,  may  be  a  saint ;  that  boasteth  of  it  is  a 
devil.  FULLER. 

Man-like  it  is  to  fall  in  sin, 

Fiend-like  it  is  to  dwell  therein, 

Christ-like  it  is  o'er  sin  to  grieve, 
God-like  it  is  all  sin  to  leave. 

LONGFELLOW. 

SONS. 

A  wise  son  maketh  a  glad  father :  but  a 
foolish  son  is  the  heaviness  of  his  mother. 

A  wise  son  heareth  his  father's  instructions. 

Even  a  child  is  known  by  his  doings,  whether 
his  work  be  pure,  and  whether  it  be  right. 

Bible. 
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SONS  —  STRENGTH. 

If  a  boy  is  not  trained  to  endure  and  to  bear 
trouble,  he  will  grow  up  a  girl ;  and  a  boy  that 
is  a  girl  has  all  a  girl's  weakness  without  any  of 
her  regal  qualities.  A  woman  made  out  of  a 
woman  is  God's  noblest  work  ;  a  woman  made 
out  of  a  man  is  his  meanest. 

H.  W.  BEECHER. 

STRENGTH. 

As  the  Sandwich  Islander  believes  that  the 
strength  and  valor  of  the  enemy  he  kills  passes 
into  himself,  so  we  gain  the  strength  of  the 
temptation  we  resist.  R.  W.  EMERSON. 

What  is  strength,  without  a  double  share 
Of  wisdom  ?    Vast,  unwieldy,  burdensome ; 
Proudly  secure,  yet  liable  to  fall 
By  weakest  subtleties ;  not  made  to  rule, 
But  to  subserve  where  wisdom  bears  command. 

MILTON. 

Strength  for  to-day  is  all  that  we  need, 
As  there  never  will  be  a  to-morrow, 
For  to-morrow  will  prove  but  another  to-day 
With  its  measure  of  joy  and  of  sorrow. 

BUCKHAM. 
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TIME. 

Life  is  not  to  be  bought  with  heaps  of  gold  ; 
Not  all  Apollo's  Pythian  treasures  hold, 
Or  Troy  once  held  in  peace  and  pride  of  sway, 
Can  bribe  the  poor  possession  of  a  day. 

HOMER. 

"  Time  is  the  present  hour,  the  past  has  fled ; 
Live  !  live  to-day  !  to-morrow  never  yet 
On  any  human  being  rose  or  set." 

Dost  thou  love  life  ?  Then  waste  not  time, 
for  time  is  the  stuff  that  life  is  made  of. 

FRANKLIN. 

Time  is  painted  with  a  lock  before  and  bald 
behind,  signifying  thereby  that  we  must  take 
time  by  the  forelock,  for  when  it  is  once  passed, 
there  is  no  recalling  it.  DEAN  SWIFT. 

Time  is  the  only  gift  in  which  God  has  stinted 
us,  for  He  never  intrusts  us  with  a  second  mo- 
ment until  He  has  taken  away  the  first,  and  never 
leaves  us  certain  of  the  third. 

RUTHERFORD. 

Time  is  the  warp  of  life,  said  he.     Oh  tell 
The  young,  the  fair,  the  gay,  to  weave  it  well. 

MARSDEN. 
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TIME. 

Hours  are  golden  links,  God's  token 
Reaching  heaven,  but  one  by  one, 

Take  them,  lest  the  chain  be  broken 
Ere  the  pilgrimage  be  done. 

A.  A.  PROCTER. 

No  man  can  be  provident  of  his  time  that  is 
not  provident  in  the  choice  of  his  company. 

DR.  JOHNSON. 

Time  can  be  utilized  best  by  those  who  are 
well,  and  every  girl  should  mean  to  be  well, 
cheery,  and  strong  if  she  can.  To  this  end  she 
should  neglect  nothing  which  God  puts  within 
her  reach  for  the  preservation  of  health,  anima- 
tion and  vigor. 

We  have  each  the  same  number  of  hours  in 
every  day,  and  the  queen  in  her  palace  has  just 
as  many  as,  and  no  more  than,  the  little  maiden 
who  carries  her  father's  dinner  to  the  mill.  In 
this  one  particular  God  has  treated  us  all 
precisely  alike. 

Time  is  ours,  not  to  be  wasted,  not  to  be 
spent  in  luxurious  ease,  and  not  to  be  lost  in 
idle  fretting.  It  is  ours  to  be  improved. 

MARGARET  E.  SANGSTER. 

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TRUST  —  TRUTH. 

"  How  gentle  God's  commands  ! 
How  kind  his  precepts  are  ! 
Come  cast  your  burden  on  the  Lord 
And  trust  his  constant  care." 

As  thy  days,  so  shall  thy  strength  be. 

Bible. 

All  I  have  seen  teaches  me  to  trust  the  Cre- 
ator for  all  I  have  not  seen. 

R.  W.  EMERSON. 
TRUTH. 

I  would  have  a  woman  as  true  as  Death.  At 
the  first  real  lie  which  works  from  the  heart  out- 
ward, she  should  be  tenderly  chloroformed  into 
a  better  world,  where  she  can  have  an  angel  for 
a  governess,  and  feed  on  strange  fruits  which 
will  make  her  over  again,  even  to  her  bones  and 
marrow. 

Leave  what  you've  done  for  what  you  have  to 

do, 
Don't  be  consistent,  but  be  simply  true. 

O.  W.  HOLMES. 

"  It  is  in  the  determination  to  obey  the  truth, 
and  to  follow  wherever  she  may  lead,  that  the 
genuine  love  of  truth  consists." 
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TRUTH. 

"Truth  is  honest,  truth  is  sure  ; 
Truth  is  strong  and  must  endure  ; 
Falsehood  lasts  a  single  day, 
Then  it  vanishes  away." 

The  greatest  friend  of  Truth  is  Time,  her 
greatest  enemy  is  Prejudice,  and  her  constant 
companion  is  Humility.  COLTON. 

Defeat  is  the  school  in  which  Truth  always 
grows  strong.  H.  W.  BEECHER. 

In  fact  there's  nothing  that  keeps  its  youth 
So  far  as  I  know,  but  a  tree  and  truth. 

O.  W.  HOLMES. 

Be  always  precisely  true  in  whatever  thou 
relatest  of  thy  own  knowledge  ;  that  thou  mayst 
give  an  undoubted  and  settled  reputation  for 
veracity.  THOMAS  FULLER. 

"  The  truth  of  truths  is  love."  % 

Shuffling  may  serve  for  a  time,  but  truth  will 
most  certainly  carry  it  at  the  long  run. 

L'ESTRANGE. 

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TRUTH USE   OF    TIME. 

"  'Tis  not  the  many  oaths  that  make  the  truth, 
But  the  plain  vow  that  is  vowed  true." 

"The  nimble  lie 

Is  like  the  second-hand  upon  a  clock. 
We  see  it  fly ;  while  the  hour-hand  of  truth 
Seems  to  stand  still,  and  yet  it  moves  unseen 
And  wins  at  last,  for  the  clock  will  not  strike 
Till  it  has  reached  the  goal.'* 

USE   OF   TIME. 

Six  hours  in  sleep,  in  law's  grave  study  six, 
Four  spend  in  prayer  —  the  rest  on  nature  fix. 

SIR  EDW.  COKE. 

Seven  hours  to  law,  to  soothing  slumber  seven, 
Ten  to  the  world  allot,  and  all  to  heaven. 

SIR  WM.  JONES. 
Eight  hours  and  a  half  to  school  allot, 

To  soothing  slumber  nine, 
The  rest  to  home  and  friends  devote, 
Excepting  three  —  to  dine. 

A.  L.  COWAN. 

Eight  hours  to  study  give,  to  dreamland  nine, 
Three  more  to  deeds  of  love,  and  two  to  dine, 
Two  to  amusement  say,  but  all  to  God  divine. 

LOUISE  ROUSSEL. 

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VICE VIRTUE. 


Vice  is  a  monster  of  such  hideous  mien 
That  to  be  hated  needs  but  to  be  seen ; 
But  seen  too  oft,  familiar  with  her  face, 

We  first  endure,  then  pity,  then  embrace. 

POPE. 

Vice  incapacitates  a  man  from  all  public 
duty ;  it  withers  the  powers  of  his  understand- 
ing, and  makes  his  mind  paralytic.  BURKE. 

As  a  stick,  when  once  it  is  dry  and  stiff,  you 
may  break  it,  but  you  can  never  bend  it  into  a 
straighter  posture,  so  doth  the  man  become  in- 
corrigible who  is  settled  and  stiffened  in  vice. 

BARROW. 

VIRTUE. 

The  four  cardinal  virtues  are  prudence,  forti- 
tude, temperance  and  patience.  PALEY. 

All  virtue  lies  in  a  power  of  denying  our  own 
desires  where  reason  does  not  authorize  them. 

LOCKE. 

All  true  virtues  are  to  honor  true  religion  as 
their  parent,  and  all  well-ordered  common- 
wealths to  love  her  as  their  chief  stay. 

HOOKER. 
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WELL-DOING  —  WISDOM. 

If  thou  do  ill,  the  joy  fades  not  the  pains  ; 
If  well,  the  pain  doth  fade,  the  joy  remains. 

GEORGE  ELIOT. 

That's  what  I  always  say,  if  you  wish  a  thing  to 

be  well  done 
You  must  do  it  yourself ;  you  must  not  leave  it 

to  others.  LONGFELLOW. 

Do  not  look  for  wrong  and  evil, 
You  will  find  them  if  you  do ; 

As  you  measure  for  your  neighbor, 
He  will  measure  back  for  you. 

ALICE  GARY. 

WISDOM. 

Wisdom  is  oft  times  nearer  when  we  stoop 
than  when  we  soar.  WORDSWORTH. 

He  is  the  wisest  man  who  is  most  susceptible 
of  alteration.  BACON. 

What  doth  better  become  wisdom  than  to  dis- 
cern what  is  worthy  the  living  ? 

SIR  PHILIP  SIDNEY. 

Never  be  ashamed  to  own  you  were  in  the 
wrong,  which  is  but  saying  you  are  wiser  to-day 
than  yesterday.  O.  W.  HOLMES. 

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WOMEN. 

These  poor  silly  women-things — they've  not 
the  sense  to  know  it's  no  use  denying  what's 
proved. 

Half  the  sorrows  of  women  would  be  averted 
if  they  could  repress  the  speech  they  know  to  be 
useless — nay,  the  speech  they  have  resolved 
not  to  utter. 

A  woman,  let  her  be  as  good  as  she  may,  has 
got  to  put  up  with  the  life  her  husband  makes 
for  her.  GEORGE  ELIOT. 

O,  what  is  woman  !  what  her  smile, 

Her  lips  of  love,  her  eyes  of  light ! 
What  is  she,  if  her  lips  revile 

The  lowly  Jesus  ?     Love  may  write 
His  name  above  her  marble  brow, 

May  linger  in  her  curls  of  jet, 
The  light  spring  flowers  may  scarcely  bow 

Beneath  her  feet —  and  yet  —  and  yet  — 
Without  that  meeker  grace,  she'd  be  — 

A  lighter  thing  than  vanity. 

N.  P.  WILLIS. 
(From  an  unpublished  poem.} 
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WORDS. 

Good  words  make  friends ;  bad  words  make 
enemies.  SIR  MATTHEW  HALE. 

"For  words  like  nature  —  half  reveal 
And  half  conceal  the  soul  within." 

"  Thought  is  deeper  than  all  speech ; 
Feeling  deeper  than  all  thought." 

Give  not  thy  tongue  too  great  a  liberty  lest  it 
take  thee  prisoner.  QUARLES. 

He  that  hath  a  perverse  tongue  falleth  into 
mischief. 

A  soft  answer  turneth  away  wrath  ;  but  griev- 
ous words  stir  up  anger. 

A  wholesome  tongue  is  a  tree  of   life,  but 
perverseness  therein  is  a  breach  in  the  spirit. 

Bible. 

The  right  word  is  always  a  power,  and  com- 
municates its  definiteness  to  our  action. 

GEORGE  ELIOT. 

But  words  are  things  and  a  small  drop  of  ink, 
Falling  like  dew  upon  a  thought,  produces 
That  which  makes  thousands,  perhaps  millions 
think.  BYRON. 


WORDS. 

"  If  you've  anything  to  say 
True  and  needed,  yea  or  nay, 
Say  it." 

There  is  only  one  thing  that  is  more  terrible 
than  to  say  a  mean  thing,  and  that  is  to  do  one. 

SIR  WM.  HARCOURT. 

Learn  to  hold  thy  tongue.  Five  words  cost 
Zacharias  forty  weeks'  silence. 

THOMAS  FULLER. 

An  unlucky  word  once  escaped  from  us,  can- 
not be  brought  back  with  a  coach  and  six. 

Chinese  Proverb. 

A  helping  word  to  one  in  trouble  is  often  like 
a  switch  on  a  railroad  track  —  but  one  inch  be- 
tween wreck  and  smooth-rolling  prosperity. 

H.  W.  BEECHER. 

What  you  keep  by  you,  you  may  change  and 
mend ;  but  words  once  spoke  can  never  be 
recalled.  ROSCOMMON. 

A  word  fitly  spoken  is  like  apples  of  gold  in 
pictures  of  silver.  Bible. 

Speak  well  of  the  absent  whenever  you  have 
a  suitable  opportunity.        SIR  MATTHEW  HALE. 
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WORK. 

Those  who  toil  bravely  are  strongest ; 

The  humble  and  poor  become  great, 
And  so  from  these  brown-handed  children 

Shall  grow  mighty  rulers  of  state. 

M.  H.  KROUT. 

"  It  is  the  cheery  worker  that  succeeds.  No 
one  can  do  his  best,  or  even  do  well,  in  the 
midst  of  worry  or  nagging.  Wherefore  if  you 
work,  work  as  cheerily  as  you  can.  If  you  do 
not  work,  do  not  put  even  a  straw  in  the  way  of 
others." 

Brave  hearts,  true  hearts,  no  duty  shirk  ; 
Labor,  "  The  Salt  of  Life  is  Work." 

Harper's  Weekly. 

Blessed  is  he  who  has  found  his  work ;  let 
him  ask  no  other  blessedness. 

THOMAS  CARLYLE. 

God  never  accepts  a  good  inclination  instead 
of  a  good  action,  where  that  action  may  be 
done ;  nay,  so  much  the  contrary,  that  if  a  good 
inclination  be  not  seconded  by  a  good  action, 
the  want  of  that  action  is  made  so  much  the 
more  criminal  and  inexcusable.  SOUTH. 


WORK. 

He  does  the  best  work  in  this  moping,  croak- 
ing age,  whose  cheerful  face  gives  the  benediction 
of  a  happy  heart,  wherever  a  heavy  step  is 
treading  along  just  behind  him. 

CHAS.   S.   ROBINSON. 

All  service  is  the  same  with  God  — 
With  God,  whose  puppets,  best  and  worst, 
Are  we :  there  is  no  last  nor  first. 

ROBERT  BROWNING. 

Labor  is  man's  great  function.  He  is  nothing, 
he  can  be  nothing,  he  can  achieve  nothing,  he 
can  fulfill  nothing  without  labor. 

ORVILLE  DEWEY. 

Each  morning  sees  some  task  begun, 

Each  evening  sees  it  close  ; 
Something  attempted,  something  done, 

Has  earned  a  night's  repose. 

LONGFELLOW. 

Work  for  some  good,  be  it  ever  so  slowly  ! 
Cherish  some  flower,  be  it  ever  so  lowly. 
Labor  !  all  labor  is  noble  and  holy ; 
Let  thy  great  deed  be  thy  prayer  to  thy  God. 

F.  S.  OSGOOD. 
85 


WORK  —  WRONG-DOING. 

"  Do  not  then  stand  idly  waiting 

For  some  greater  work  to  do ; 
Fortune  is  a  lazy  goddess, 

She  will  never  come  to  you. 
Go  and  toil  in  any  vineyard ; 

Do  not  fear  to  do  or  dare  ; 
If  you  want  a  field  of  labor, 

You  can  find  it  anywhere." 

"  Work  sows  the  seed  ; 
Even  the  rock  may  yield  its  flower  — 
No  lot  so  hard  but  human  power, 
Exerted  to  one  end  and  aim, 
May  conquer  fate,  and  capture  fame ! 
Press  on  !  " 

Free  men  freely  work : 
Whoever  fears  God,  fears  to  sit  at  ease. 

MRS.  BROWNING. 

WRONG-DOING. 

You  cannot  do  wrong  without  suffering  wrong. 

R.  W.  EMERSON. 

Nothing  can  work  me  damage  except  myself; 
the  harm  that  I  sustain  I  carry  about  with  me, 
and  never  am  a  real  sufferer  but  by  my  own 
fault.  ST.  BERNARD. 

86 


MISCELLANEOUS. 

Cause  and  effect  are  two  sides  of  one  fact. 

Nature  never  rhymes  her  children,  nor  makes 
two  men  alike. 

We  aim  above  the  mark,  to  hit  the  mark. 

R.  W.  EMERSON. 

There  is  no  substitute  for  thorough-going, 
ardent  and  sincere  earnestness. 

CHARLES  DICKENS. 

The  talent  of  success  is  nothing  more  than 
doing  what  you  can  do  well,  and  doing  well 
whatever  you  do,  without  a  thought  of  fame. 

LONGFELLOW. 

He  who  seduously  attends,  pointedly  asks, 
calmly  speaks,  coolly  answers,  and  ceases  when 
he  has  no  more  to  say,  is  in  possession  of 
some  of  the  best  requisites  of  man. 

LAVATER. 

Silently  sat  the  artist  alone, 

Carving  a  Christ  from  the  ivory  bone  ; 
Little  by  little,  with  toil  and  pain 

He  won  his  way  through  the  sightless  grain, 
That  held  and  yet  hid  the  thing  he  sought, 
Till  the  work  stood  up  a  growing  thought. 

BOKER. 
87 


MISCELLANEOUS. 

There's  a  divinity  that  shapes  our  ends, 
Rough-hew  them  as  we  will. 

SHAKESPEARE. 

Dispatch  is  the  soul  of  business. 

CHESTERFIELD. 

Conscience  doth  make  cowards  of  us  all. 

SHAKESPEARE. 

You  question  the  justice  which  governs  man's 

breast, 
And  say  that  the  search  for  true  friendship  is 

vain; 
But  remember,  this  world,  though  it  be  not  the 

best, 
Is  the  next  to  the  best  we  shall  ever  attain. 

CHARLES  SWAIN. 

Take  the  Sunday  with  you  through  the  week, 
And  with  it  sweeten  all  the  other  days. 

LONGFELLOW. 

Endeavor  to  be  first  in  thy  calling,  whatever 
it  be ;  neither  let  any  one  go  before  thee  in 
well-doing ;  nevertheless  do  not  envy  the  merits 
of  another,  but  improve  thine  own  talents. 

DODSLEY. 


MISCELLANEOUS. 

In  this  world,  it  is  not  what  we  take  up,  but 
what  we  give  up,  that  makes  us  rich. 

H.  W.  BEECHER. 

The  first  condition  of  human  goodness  is 
something  to  love,  the  second,  something  to 
reverence.  GEORGE  ELIOT. 

"  In  private  watch  your  thoughts  ;  in  your 
family  watch  your  temper  ;  in  society  watch  your 
tongue." 

Yea  ;  find  thou  always  time  to  say  some  earnest 

word 

Between  the  idle  talk,  lest  with  thee  henceforth, 
Night  and  day,  regret  should  walk. 

COVENTRY  PATMORE. 

Learn  as  if  you  were  to  live  forever  ;  live  as  if 
you  were  to  die  to-morrow. 

ANSALUS  DE  INSULTS. 

A  good  name  is  rather  to  be  chosen  than  great 
riches.  Bible. 

God  helps  those  that  help  themselves. 

FRANKLIN. 

Put  your  trust  in  God,  my  boys,  and  keep 
your  powder  dry.  OLIVER  CROMWELL. 

89 


MISCELLANEOUS. 

Be  sure  you're  right  and  then  go  ahead. 

DAVY  CROCKETT. 

"  A  well-spent  day  prepares  us  for  sweet 
repose." 

I  hold  it  truth,  with  him  who  sings 

To  one  clear  harp  in  divers  tones, 
That  men  may  rise  on  stepping-stones 
Of  their  dead  selves  to  higher  things. 

TENNYSON. 

And  when  you  stick  on  conversation's  burs, 
Don't  strew  your  pathway  with  those  dreadful 

urs.  O.  W.  HOLMES. 

No  two  things  differ  more  than  hurry  and 
dispatch.  Hurry  is  the  mark  of  a  weak  mind, 
dispatch  of  a  strong  one.  COLTON. 

Every  one  is  the  son  of  his  own  works. 

CERVANTES. 

Once  a  day,  especially  in  the  early  years  of 
life  and  study,  call  yourselves  to  an  account  — 
what  new  ideas,  what  new  proposition  or  truth 
you  have  gained.  DR.  ISAAC  WATTS. 

New    actions    are    the    only    apologies    and 
explanations  of  old  ones  which  the  noble  can 
bear  to  offer  or  to  receive.         R.  w.  EMERSON. 
90 


MISCELLANEOUS. 

Difficulties  are  God's  errands.  And  when 
we  are  sent  upon  them  we  should  esteem  it  a 
proof  of  God's  confidence  —  as  a  compliment 
from  God.  H.  W.  BEECHER. 

How  beautiful  the  long  mild  twilight,  which, 
like  a  silver  clasp,  unites  to-day  with  yesterday. 

The  heart  hath  Its  own  memory,  like  the  mind, 
And  in  it  are  enshrined 

The  precious  keepsakes,  into  which  are  wrought 
The  giver's  loving  thought.  LONGFELLOW. 

It  behooves  the  high  for  their  own  sakes  to 
do  things  worthily.  BEN  JONSON. 

Speak  out  in  acts  ;  the  time  for  words  has 
passed,  and  deeds  alone  remain. 

J.  G.  WHITTIER. 

The  best  fire  doesna  flare  up  the  soonest. 

We  are  led  on,  like  little  children,  by  a  way 
that  we  know  not.  GEORGE  ELIOT. 

Night  wrapped  her  sable  mantle  round,  and 
pinned  it  with  a  star.  Louis  GAYLORD  CLARK. 


MISCELLANEOUS. 

Silently,  one  by  one,  in  the  infinite  meadows  of 

heaven, 
Blossom  the  lovely  stars,  the  forget-me-nots  of 

the  angels.  LONGFELLOW. 

Prove  all  things  ;  hold  fast  that  which  is  good. 
Let  not  the  sun  go  down  upon  your  wrath. 

These  six  things  doth  the  Lord  hate,  yea, 
seven  are  an  abomination  to  him  : 

A  proud  look,  a  lying  tongue,  and  hands  that 
shed  innocent  blood, 

A  heart  that  deviseth  wicked  imaginations, 
feet  that  be  swift  in  running  to  mischief, 

A  false  witness  that  speaketh  lies,  and  he 
that  soweth  discord  among  brethren. 

Pure  religion  and  undefiled  before  God  and 
the  Father  is  this,  To  visit  the  fatherless  and 
widows  in  their  affliction,  and  to  keep  himself 
unspotted  from  the  world.  Bible. 

From  envy,  hatred,  and  malice,  and  all  un- 
charitableness,  good  Lord,  deliver  us. 

Book  of  Common  Prayer. 
92 


MISCELLANEOUS. 

"  Mirth  should  be  the  embroidery  of  conver- 
sation, not  the  web,  and  wit  the  ornament  of 
mind,  not  the  furniture." 

The  real  price  of  everything,  what  everything 
really  costs  to  the  man  who  wants  to  acquire  it, 
is  the  toil  and  trouble  of  acquiring  it. 

ADAM  SMITH. 

Dear  to  us  are  those  who  love  us  ;  the  swift 
moments  we  spend  with  them  are  a  compensa- 
tion for  a  great  deal  of  misery :  they  enlarge 
our  life  —  but  dearer  are  they  who  reject  us  as 
unworthy,  for  they  add  another  life  ;  they  build 
a  heaven  before  us  whereof  we  had  not  dreamed, 
and  thereby  supply  to  us  new  powers  out  of  the 
recesses  of  the  spirit,  and  urge  us  to  new  and 
unattempted  performances.  R-  W.  EMERSON. 

A  noble  mind  disdains  not  to  repent. 

HOMER. 

A  thought  often  makes  us  hotter  than  a  fire. 

As  turning  the  logs  will  make  a  dull  fire 
burn,  so  change  of  studies  a  dull  brain. 

LONGFELLOW. 
93 


MISCELLANEOUS. 

Every  kernel  has  its  shell, 
Every  chime  its  harshest  bell, 
Every  face  its  weariest  look, 
Every  shelf  its  emptiest  book, 
Every  field  its  leanest  sheaf, 
Every  book  its  dullest  leaf, 
Every  leaf  its  weakest  line,  — 
Shall  it  not  be  so  with  mine  ? 
Best  for  worst  shall  make  amends, 
Find  us,  keep  us,  leave  us  friends 
Till  perchance  we  meet  again, 
Benedicite  —  Amen.       o.  W.  HOLMES. 

Christian  life  consists  in  faith  and  charity- 

MARTIN  LUTHER. 

Never  ask  a  question  if  you  can  help  it ;  and 
never  let  a  thing  go  unknown  for  the  lack  of 
asking  a  question,  if  you  can't  help  it. 

H.  W.  BEECHER. 

He  who  does  the  utmost  that  he  can,  always 
does  more  than  he  alone  could  have  accom- 
plished ;  for  God  is  working  with  him  and  makes 
his  little  mighty.  w.  M.  TAYLOR. 

The  great  lesson  of  travel  is  toleration. 

CURTIS. 
94 


MISCELLANEOUS. 

Letters,  such  as  are  written  from  wise  men, 
are  of  all  the  words  of  men,  in  my  judgment,  the 
best.  LORD  BACON. 

Never  risk  a  joke  even  the  least  offensive  in 
its  nature,  and  the  most  common,  with  a  person 
who  is  not  well-bred  and  possessed  of  sense  to 
comprehend  it.  LA  BRUYERE. 

A  home  is  never  perfectly  furnished  for  en- 
joyment, unless  there  is  a  child  in  it,  rising 
three  years  old,  and  a  kitten  rising  three  weeks. 

SOUTHEY. 

It  is  better  to  inspire  the  heart  with  a  noble 
sentiment  than  to  teach  the  mind  a  truth  of 
science.  EDWARD  BURKE. 

All  nature  is  but  art  unknown  to  thee  ; 

All  chance,  direction  which  thou  canst  not  see ; 

All  discord,  harmony  not  understood ; 

All  partial  evil,  universal  good  ; 

And  spite  of  pride,  in  erring  reason's  spite, 

One  truth  is  clear :    Whatever  is,  is  right. 

POPE. 

The  reward  of  one  duty  is  the  power  to  fulfill 
another  —  so  said  Ben  Azar.        GEORGE  ELIOT. 
95 


MISCELLANEOUS. 

A  man  must  not  choose   his   neighbor :    he 
must  take  the  neighbor  that  God  sends  him. 

GEORGE  MACDONALD. 

"  A  godly  life  is  the  only  evidence  of  a  changed 
heart." 

Neither  days  nor  lives  can  be  made  holy  by 
doing  nothing  in  them.  RUSKIN. 

One  likes  a  "beyond"  everywhere. 

GEORGE  ELIOT. 

Honor  makes  a  great  part  of  the  reward  of  all 
honorable  professions.  ADAM  SMITH. 

In  a  sense,  what  a  man  wants  he  can  have. 
The  desire  of  his  soul  is  the  prophecy  of  his  fate. 

O.  W.  HOLMES,  JR. 

Without  confidence  in  one's  self  very  little 
headway  is  made  in  this  world. 

J.  G.  HOLLAND. 

Learning  means  being  taught  to  think  by  easy 
steps. 

Thought  is  a  pleasure  and  a  power. 

TURING. 

96 


MISCELLANEOUS. 

Highest  aim  and  true  endeavor, 
Earnest  work  with  patient  might ; 

Hoping,  trusting,  singing  ever ; 
Battling  bravely  for  the  right ; 

Loving  God,  all  men  forgiving, 
Helping  weaker  feet  to  stand  — 

These  will  make  a  life  worth  living, 
Make  it  noble,  make  it  grand. 

EMMA  C.  DOWD. 

"The  universe  is  not  quite  perfect  without 
my  work  well  done." 

Young  folks  are  sometimes  very  cunning  in 

finding  out  contrivances  to  cheat  themselves. 

SHERLOCK. 

"  When  you've  nothing  to  say,  say  it." 

"  Nothing  not  good  is  wanted." 

We  can't  talk  unless  we  know  what  we  ought 
to  say,  what  we  mean  to  say,  what  we  do  say, 
and  to  whom  we  say  it.  H.  CLAY  TRUMBULL. 

The  world  continues  to  exist  only  by  the 
breath  of  the  children  of  the  schools. 

Talmud. 

Conscience  is  the  whisper  of  God. 

J.  R.  MILLER. 
97 


MISCELLANEOUS. 

At  sermon  and  at  prayers  men  may  sleep  and 
wander,  but  when  one  is  asked  a  question  he 
must  disclose  what  he  is.  GEORGE  HERBERT. 

Oh !  be  it  mine  with  deed  or  song, 
To  kindle  some  life  to  purpose  strong; 
To  light  some  lamp  on  the  shore  of  time, 
That  shall  shine  forever  with  beam  sublime  ! 

JAMES  BUCKHAM. 

Do  not  consider  that  for  your  interest,  which 
makes  you  break  your  word,  or  inclines  you  to 
any  practice  which  will  not  bear  the  light,  or 
look  the  world  in  the  face.  ANTONINUS. 

Canst  thou  bind  the  sweet  influences  of  the 
Pleiades  or  loose  the  bands  of  Orion  ?  Canst 
thou  bring  forth  Mazzaroth  in  his  season  ?  or 
canst  thou  bind  Arcturus  and  his  sons  ? 

Bible. 

The  rain  has  spoiled  the  farmer's  day, 
Shall  sorrow  put  my  books  away  ? 
Thereby  are  two  days  lost : 
Nature  shall  mind  her  own  affairs, 
I  will  attend  my  proper  cares 
In  rain,  or  sun,  or  frost.      R.  .W  EMERSON. 
98 


MISCELLANEOUS. 

Do  what  we  can,  summer  will  have  its  flies ; 
if  we  walk  in  the  woods,  we  must  feel  mosqui- 
toes ;  if  we  go  a-fishing,  we  must  expect  a  wet 
coat  R.  W.  EMERSON. 

Evil  swells  the  debt  to  pay, 
Good  delivers  and  acquits  ; 
Shun  evil,  follow  good  ;  hold  sway 
Over  thyself.     This  is  the  way. 

EDWIN  ARNOLD. 

Seize  the  moment  of  excited  curiosity  on  any 
subject,  to  solve  your  doubts  ;  for  if  you  let  it 
pass,  the  desire  may  never  return,  and  you  may 
remain  in  ignorance.  Therefore  seize  the  mo- 
ment of  excited  curiosity  and  look  it  up ! 

WIRT. 

Cast  all  your  cares  on  God :  that  anchor  holds — 
Is  he  not  yonder  in  the  uttermost 
Parts  of  the  morning  ?  if  I  flee  to  these 
Can  I  go  from  Him  ?  and  the  sea  is  His, 
The  sea  is  His  :  He  made  it. 

TENNYSON. 

Evil  reports  often  originate  by  spontaneous 
combustion  in  the  protoplasm  of  total  depravity. 

HOMER  B.  SPRAGUE. 
99 


MISCELLANEOUS. 

Surely  there  is  something  in  the  unruffled 
calm  of  nature  that  overawes  our  little  anxieties 
and  doubts  :  the  sight  of  the  deep  blue  sky  and 
the  clustering  stars  above,  seem  to  impart  a 
quiet  to  the  mind.  JONATHAN  EDWARDS. 

Ah  !  let  us  hope  that  to  our  praise 

Good  God  not  only  reckons 
The  moments  when  we  tread  his  ways, 

But  when  the  spirit  beckons,  — 
That  some  slight  good  is  also  wrought 

Beyond  self-satisfaction, 
When  we  are  simply  good  in  thought, 

Howe'er  we  fail  in  action. 

J.  R.  LOWELL. 

We  are  all  building  a  soul  house  for  eternity ; 
yet  with  what  different  architecture,  and  what 
various  care.  H.  W.  BEECHER. 

Therefore  to  him  that  knoweth  to  do  good, 
and  doeth  it  not,  to  him  it  is  sin.  Bible. 

When  we  have  practiced  good  actions  awhile 
they  become  easy  ;  and  when  they  are  easy,  we 
begin  to  take  pleasure  in  them  ;  and  when  they 
please  us,  we  do  them  frequently  ;  and  by  fre- 
quency of  acts,  they  grow  into  a  habit. 


M ISCELLANEOUS. 

A  poem,  —  magical  words  and  thoughts, 
Like  a  flower  of  wondrous  bloom, 

Its  fancies,  the  color  catching  the  light, 
Its  deeper  sense,  the  perfume. 

PALMER  D.  HATCH. 

A  large  part  of  my  religion  consists  in  trying 
all  the  while  not  to  be  as  mean  as  I  know 
how.  PETROLEUM  V.  NASEBY. 

If  we  are  left  in  the  world  another  year,  it  is 
that  we  may  do  our  share  of  the  world's  work. 

ROBT.  MCKENZIE. 


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